Google Chat To Fully Replace Classic Hangouts for Workspace Users from March

If you're a Google Workspace user, the classic Hangouts messaging service will start to disappear next month as part of the transition to Google Chat. From a report: Google has announced that it'll make Google Chat its default chat application beginning March 22nd, meaning users will be redirected to Chat when they try to visit Hangouts in Gmail on the web, or try to use the old Hangouts mobile apps. The shift from Google Hangouts to Google Chat is the latest step in Google's constantly evolving messaging strategy, which generally gets more confusing the more you read about it. This particular migration kicked into gear in June 2020, and focusses on the messaging service integrated with Gmail. Google Chat should not be confused with GChat, the unofficial name for Google Talk, which was officially killed off in 2017 and replaced with -- you guessed it -- Hangouts.

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