Google officially kills Gchat, replaces with Hangouts

[sumitroy]

Google has shut down its messaging service Google Talk (commonly referred to as Gchat) and replaced with Hangouts. For long, Google has been encouraging users to replace Google Talk with Hangouts. Now, Google Talk (or Gchat) is officially dead.
Google Talk was announced in 2005 to provide an instant messaging service between Gmail users, and eight years later, Google launched Hangouts. Google has been pushing Hangouts in favor of Google Talk, since 2013. However, the company continued to offer users an option to use Google Talk. So now the Google Talk app will not work, nor it will be available to download from the Play Store.

Google officially kills Gchat, replaces with Hangouts

 

[Ritesh]

RIP Gtalk.. i was user of g talk. Never liked hangout for desktop.

 

[Bapun]

Yes, i too. G Talk was loading faster and more simple to use. Hangouts Dense Roster is not a proper replacement for it.:no: