New Delhi: Users bid final goodbye to the widely used Google's Windows desktop-based chat platform 'Google Talk' which was shut down by Google on Monday.
The search giant said that the IM service will be wholly replaced by the Hangouts app, which is only available through using its Chrome browser. The Google Talk service however will still be available through Gmail.
In May 2013, Google announced that Google Plus Hangouts was replacing the Google Talk app on Android devices and in October last year Google announced that it will stop the GTalk Windows app.
While Google is touting the many advantages Hangouts has over Google Talk, some users continued using their old Google Talk clients just for the sake of file sharing or being invisible or if they for some reason didn't want to use Google Chrome.
The GTalk Windows app shutdown also means that Google Talk support in third-party apps such as Pidgin and Adium will also end, as Hangouts doesn't support the necessary protocol (XMPP)
