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Google Hangouts is dead, replaced by Chat

11/07/202211/04/2022 Jesse Collins

The old platform officially came to an end at the start of this month as users are switched to the new one. As of the beginning of November, Google Hangouts has been officially killed off, with users of that platform being automatically switched over to the new Chat platform. This isn’t a surprise, as the change from one platform to the next was first announced two years ago. Google Hangouts has already been undergoing a slow process of phasing out since its end was first announced in 2020. At that…

Google Chat rebrand takes over old Hangouts name

04/14/202004/10/2020 Stephanie Beck

Google Chat - My G Suite on mobile phone

The old brand has been officially removed from its enterprise G Suite, having fully rebranded. The Hangouts brand has been fully removed from the enterprise G Suite, replacing it with the rebranded Google Chat. The rebranding has arrived on the heels of a similar produce renaming, as the company has launched the name Google Meet in the place of its old Hangouts Meet for its videoconferencing app. The change had previously been suggested in a G Suite support document update, but it is now confirmed. The new Google Chat is…