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 Screenshot of Google Talk
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| Initial release | August 24, 2005 |
| Last release |
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| Preview release | Google Talk Labs Edition |
| Development status | Discontinued |
| Operating system |
Android, BlackBerry OS, Linux, Maemo, webOS, Symbian, iOS (third party apps), Windows, Chrome OS, Mac OS X |
| Available in | English, German, French, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Dutch, Polish, Portuguese, Russian, Turkish, Chinese, Spanish |
| Type | VoIP/instant messaging client |
| License | Proprietary |
| Website | www |
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Google Talk (also known as Google Chat) is an instant messaging service that provides both text and voice communication. The instant messaging service is colloquially known as "Gchat," "Gtalk", or "Gmessage" to its users, although Google does not endorse those names.
Google Talk was also the name of the client applications previously offered by Google to use the service. Google Talk applications were available for Microsoft Windows,Android,BlackBerry, and Chrome OS operating systems. A Google Talk mobile web app had also been previously available. In February 2015, the Windows client was discontinued and ceased to work, with Google recommending users to use Google Hangouts instead. Users of Windows client were instructed to migrate to the Google Hangouts app on the Chrome browser platform. It remained possible to connect to Google Talk with compatible third-party apps such as Pidgin and Gajim.
Google dropped support for XMPP federation in May 2014, meaning that they will no longer support communicating with other XMPP servers. However, users can still chat with other non-Google Talk users using third-party XMPP clients such as Adium and Pidgin.
Google Talk will be discontinued on June 26, 2017.
Google announced that a major goal of the Google Talk service is interoperability (which was abandoned around 2013). Google Talk used XMPP to provide real-time extensible messaging and presence events, including offline messaging and voice mailing. Google Talk supported messaging with any service provider that supports the XMPP protocol. This included EarthLink, Gizmo5, Tiscali, NetEase, Chikka, MediaRing, and, according to Google, "thousands of other ISPs, universities, corporations and individual users."
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