“More specific guidance” is coming before the process gets underway.
#GOOGLE CHAT AND CLASSIC HANGOUTS FREE#
The migration from classic Hangouts to a free Chat will start in the first half of 2021, with users able to easily move conversations, history, and contacts. With Chat, you can more easily plan with others on goals and similar interests, share and collaborate on files, and assign tasks to help keep everyone on the same page.
In effect, Google is notably offering a Slack and Discord competitor. This includes access to Rooms, which are larger than group conversations and aimed at teams. Google is positioning the free Chat as helping you collaborate with others on personal projects. That’s changing today to give users an early heads-up, though final “timing may shift.” Similar to Hangouts, the free version of Google Chat will be usable inside Gmail and as a standalone application.Ĭhat includes familiar Hangouts features like direct and group messaging, with helpful additions like send to inbox, faster search, emoji reactions and suggested replies.įunctionality in this upcoming version will not differ from what’s available to paying users today. What will be new to free accounts is Chat, with Google having yet to extensively detail its plans. Consumers are set to get this integrated offering next year but already have access to free versions of Gmail, Drive, Calendar, and - most recently - Meet. This development follows last week’s Google Workspace rebrand, which is already available for enterprise customers.
Google is now ready to start detailing how it will transition classic Hangouts users to a free version of Chat. The company later confirmed the news and has since been moving enterprise users to those two apps.
At the tail end of 2018, we reported on Google’s plans to replace Hangouts with Chat and Meet.
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