By John Glenday

Google has announced it is to end support for Talk, its ageing communication tool for Gmail, in order to concentrate resources on the more feature-rich Hangouts service.

Hangouts was first launched way back in 2013 but Google has kept Talk, colloquially referred to as Gchat, on as a legacy platform for people happy with a more basic level of service.

That stance however, changes on 26 June when Google forcibly migrates stragglers to its new service.

The brute force approach follows a four-year push to cajole hold-outs into making the upgrade. To streamline its offer Read full story ›

Source: The Drum