Google Will Start Retiring Hangouts For G Suite Users In October (techcrunch.com)

Posted by BeauHD on Tuesday January 22, 2019 @11:00AM from the mark-your-calendar dept.

In a blog post, Google clarified the timeline of the transition from classic Hangouts to Chat and Meet for its paying G Suite customers. "For them, the Hangouts retirement party will start in October of this year," reports TechCrunch. From the report: For consumers, the situation remains unclear, but Google says there will be free versions of Chat and Meet that will become available "following the transition of G Suite customers." As of now, there is no timeline, so for all we know, Hangouts will remain up and running into 2020. As for G Suite users, Google says it will start bringing more features from classic Hangouts to Chat between April and September. Those include integration with Gmail, the ability to talk to external users, improved video calling and making calls with Google Voice.

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Hangouts, Chat, Meets, confusing mess by blahbooboo · 2019-01-22 11:04 · Score: 4, Insightful

Amazing how Google could so mess up messaging. It's a confusing mess now. I can't tell what product does what anymore.. Hangouts is mostly dead anyway as most folks seem to have moved on to other platforms.
The original Google Chat was such a success, Google just completely dropped the ball!