Google Hangouts' New Features Make Work Meetings Slightly Less Annoying (cnet.com)

Posted by msmash on Thursday March 9, 2017 @07:20AM from the remember-google-talk? dept.

Google is rolling out two new features in its communication and messaging app, Hangouts. From a report: (Unfortunately, neither tools help decrease the utterances of such phrases like "How will this scale?" and "Run it up the flagpole.") The first is a video conferencing feature called Hangouts Meet. Meet allows people to hop on meetings via a web link through their laptops or mobile app. This link can be shared in an email or directly through a Google Calendar invite. Colleagues who are traveling without Internet can use a dedicated dial-in phone number. The second feature is Hangouts Chat, which lets coworkers message each other in dedicated chat rooms.

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Re:GotoMeeting and webex by jafiwam · 2017-03-09 08:12 · Score: 4, Insightful

Don't worry.
Google will fail to finish it or pull it out of beta and will drop the project with 2 months warning at some random time between 1 and 4 years in the future.
All is well.