Google is finally killing off Gchat and replacing it with Hangouts
The day has arrived. Google is finally pulling the plug on Gchat and replacing it with Google Hangouts. Gchat, also known as Google Talk, was introduced back in 2005 as a simple chat experience between Gmail users but was relatively underpowered. Hangouts was supposed to address its biggest weaknesses and boasted a richer feature-set when it was released in 2013, but some die hard...