Google Hangouts is shutting down in November

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After sunsetting Google Hangouts for Workspace users in February, Google’s now beginning the process of migrating free, personal Hangouts users to Chat. In an announcement posted to its blog, Google says people who still use the Hangouts mobile app will see a prompt to move to Chat.

As for users who use Hangouts in Gmail on the web, Google says it won’t start prompting users to make the switch to Chat until July. Hangouts will remain usable on its desktop site until November, and Google says it will warn users “at least one month” in advance before it starts pointing the Hangouts site to Chat.

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Confusingly, Google Chat isn’t the same thing as GChat (or Google Talk), which Google discontinued for good...

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source https://www.theverge.com/2022/6/27/23185012/google-hangouts-shutting-down-november-chat-migration

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