Google’s finally straightening out its legacy free G Suite mess

Free for people, not businesses. | Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge

Almost five months after Google announced that it was going to make G Suite legacy free edition users start paying for their accounts, it seems to finally have a path in place that most people will be happy with. According to 9to5Google, there's now a no-cost option that'll let people keep using their G Suite accounts for personal use, and signing up for it won't involve a song and dance of joining a waitlist or transferring data between accounts.

In January, Google announced that free G Suite users would have to start paying for Google Workspace if they wanted to keep their accounts, after around a decade of keeping the legacy free tier around. The company said that if users didn't decide which paid Workspace tier they wanted by May...

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