So, if you belong to an Enterprise or an Educational Institute, who uses G-Suite for domain apps and functionality, this change applies to you.
Initially, the Hangouts phase out was scheduled to happen sometime in October 2019, but Google received a lot of fo feedback from users asking for time to prepare their companies for this change. In view of this feedback, Google has announced that the phase-out will formally begin in June 2020.
Now, while this is quite clear on paper, if you head to the app store or play store right now, you will see the Google Meet and Google Chat apps already available for download, and that’s because Google wants enterprises to start the adoption process as early as possible. While they have mentioned that they will be continuing support for standard Hangouts for G-Suite users, it will not be perpetual.
According to reports, support for Hangouts (G-Suite Users), will go on till June 2020, and maybe a little later as well, but no new features will be added on.
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Google Meet (Hangouts Meet) is Google’s answer to a professional video conferencing app. Complete with features that let you start a conference, join a conference and schedule a conference, Google Meet has been designed to go head to head against the best in the business.
