Google is preparing to shut down its messaging platform, Google Hangouts, and to transition users to its newest service, Google Chat. Hangouts allows users to message others or video call them. Users of Hangouts on the web will receive a notice at least one month before Hangouts begins redirecting to Chat. Chat is similar to Hangouts and other messaging platforms like Slack and Microsoft Teams. Chat became free to access shortly after, and was added to Google Workspace in place of Hangout earlier this year. Google+ will be replaced with Spaces – already a feature within Chat – in 2023, Google announced in February. Chat isn’t the first platform to enter the “Google grave” Among those is the aforementioned Google+. . . .
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