O Google has comprehensive solutions for those who may need any services on the Internet, including an instant messaging application, speak. This service from the company was a little successful at the beginning of the last decade, but has been in limbo in recent months, now the developer confirmed to close this application.

Launched in 2005 as a chat for users gmailthe service worked as a messenger for the research giant and had a difficult mission to compete in the market with msn this is Skype. But, despite the fact that he managed to gain popularity and have a large number of users, the company began the process of replacing Hangouts.

O Google already abandoned clients Google Talk for PRACHA as well as androidbut retained support for XMPP/Jabber clients such as pidgin as well as Gadzhimwhich was in effect until this year. Now she finally confirmed that XMPP support too will be discontinued on June 16, 2022.

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Part of the XMPP support was previously removed and the inter-provider chat feature was removed, supporting only user-to-user conversations Hangouts.

On the support page gmail as well as HangoutsThe company said it had previously warned about shutting down the service this week. As indicated 9to5Googlethe company didn’t announce it or share a service transition timeline, leaving users with just a few days to switch apps.

The portal indicates that from this Thursday (16th) users pidgin as well as Gadzhim will start seeing login errors Google Talk. To avoid this, these users need to go to Google Chat, or some messenger from another company. To help with the transition to the service, Google provides the ability to download chat histories from Google Talk, Hangouts as well as google conversation through win.

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Source: 9to5Google