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Re:Source: Google Hangouts for consumers will be shutting do... by sanat on Friday November 30, 2018 @07:04PM (#18573969)
Like the article says Google Hangouts Chat will replace Hangouts. Chat even has hangouts classic backwards compatibility.
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Re:Source: Google Hangouts for consumers will be shutting do... by SwellJoe on Friday November 30, 2018 @08:14PM (#18574321)
If it's backward compatible, why would they kill Hangouts, instead of just upgrading everyone automatically and calling it version 2? Google makes no damned sense. With all of the confusing product names, I can't figure out what they even want me, a regular Hangouts user, to do.
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Re:Source: Google Hangouts for consumers will be shutting do... by jedmeyers on Friday November 30, 2018 @10:54PM (#18575024)
Chat can support Hangouts features but not vice versa.
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Re:Source: Google Hangouts for consumers will be shutting do... by netsharc on Saturday December 01, 2018 @05:04AM (#18576130)
And Windows 10 can run programs written for Windows 7 and not vice versa... so as the above commenter said, why not just call it version 2 and upgrade everyone?

But yeah, I guesss Google's culture leads to a lot of dick waving competitions...

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Re:Source: Google Hangouts for consumers will be shutting do... by 0x54D5 on Friday November 30, 2018 @07:37PM (#18574141)
Google Chat is a horrible experience and I would advise anyone serious about communications at their company to seriously consider alternatives. I am currently forced to use it. I have documented multiple bugs in a blog post here and I have reported each one to Google multiple times without any fixes being made. We are a paying client for G Suites.

https://technex.us/2018/11/google_chat_is_the_worst_desktop_...

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