


However, after Google unveiled plans for opening Google Workspace for free to all its users, it also announced changes to its text communication services. Google Chat was originally built as an integral part of Google Workspace (formerly known as G Suite) as a premium feature that allows business, education, and government customers to engage in collaboration more easily during their daily tasks.

This service evolved from the Google Hangout Chat feature, and after the period of extensive upgrades, Google decided that it would retire Hangouts and replace it with two new chat services – Google Chat for Windows PC which is intended to streamline text communication between users who are collaborating inside Google Workspace suite (such as working together on Google Drive documents), while the other will be Google Meet, a new Google service for fast, secure and easy video communication. Google Chat is a cloud-powered communication software developed by Google and offered for free to all holders of Google Account.
