At the tail end of 2018, we reported on Google’s plans to replace Hangouts with Chat and Meet. The company later confirmed the news and has since been moving enterprise users to those two apps. Google ...

Google’s strategy around its messaging apps is nothing if not messy right now (hello Hangouts, Meet, Chat, Duo and Co.), but it looks like things will get a bit easier come next year. We already knew ...

The free versions of Google Hangouts will begin to transition to Chat today. You can still use some versions of Hangouts until October 2022. By the end of this year ...

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Google chat is going free for general Hangouts users in the future, which means users will eventually need to say goodbye to Hangouts as their form of communication. This week, Google announced ...

In 2021, Google Hangouts is fading away and Google Chat is taking its place. So if you’re a seasoned Hangouts user—after all, the service has been around for seven years at this point—what do you need ...

Google has a multi-stage plan to shut down classic Hangouts and move enterprise Workspace customers to Chat. This latest step in advancing Google Chat adoption takes place next month. For the past ...

It’s time to talk about Google messaging again. The company’s latest blog lays out future plans for its suite of messaging services, which includes stripping features out of Google Hangouts as we head ...

After nearly a year in beta, Google today announced that its Slack-competing Hangouts Chat platform is ready for prime time. The internet giant announced last March that it was splitting its Hangouts ...

Google is now receiving more backlash for asking users with free Hangouts accounts to be part of the newer Google Chat transition! Over the past couple of days, Google has been migrating its Hangouts ...

Eh, I don't think this is one of Google's "lets shut random things down earlier than they should"; 2013 is a long time ago, and it's okay to have a new product. Click to expand... This is an example ...