Google Workspace and Google Chat are officially available to everybody

Google Workspace and Google Chat are officially available to everybody

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Reported today on The Verge

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Reported today in The Verge.

Google Workspace and Google Chat are officially available to everybody

Google is announcing some changes to its Workspace suite of apps and services today, including availability for anybody who has a Google account. Google says that there are over three billion users of its Workspace apps - though it's probably a safe bet that Gmail accounts for a healthy chunk of that userbase.

A lot of people will soon have the option to switch over to Google's more modern system for Gmail, Docs, and Chat. All of them can be integrated in a single tab more easily, for example with chats sliding over to the left to reveal a shared spreadsheet. It's also related to the company's new "smart canvas" push, which is also designed to interlink its various apps via "smart chips."

To get started, Google is now officially offering the setting to turn on Google Chat to all users. It's a new setting within Gmail.

With the switch, Google Chat messaging should be an option for all now, which can include direct messages and chat Rooms. But Google is also introducing a new terminology to go along with the announcement. It is announcing the "evolution of Rooms in Google Chat to Spaces."

A Space is essentially the same thing as a chat Room, but Google wants to separate them out into their own top-level form of communication next to Gmail, Chat, and Meet. Google is layering on a few new features like improved message threading, more emoji reactions, user roles, moderation tools, and "discoverable" spaces. In that sense, it seems that Spaces wants to serve both as a Slack competitor and as a competitor for public Discord groups and, well, maybe as an optional replacement for email groups.

It's a little confusing - but that's par for the course for Google's messaging str




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