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Key facts
- Developer
- Initial release
- August 24, 2005 ; 20 years ago ( 2005-08-24 )
- Stable release
- Windows Plugin:, 3.19.1.13088 (May 14, 2013 ; 13 years ago ( 2013-05-14 ) ) [ ± ]
- Preview release
- Google Talk Labs Edition [ ± ]
- Operating system
- List Android BlackBerry OS (third party apps) BlackBerry 10 Linux Maemo webOS Windows Mobile iOS Windows ChromeOS macOS
- Successor
- Google Hangouts
- Available in
- English, German, French, Italian, Japanese, Korean , Dutch , Polish , Portuguese , Russian, Turkish , Chinese, Spanish
- Type
- VoIP / instant messaging client
- License
- Proprietary software
- Website
- web .archive .org /web /20130514014126 /http: / /www .google .com /talk /
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Wikidata facts
- Official website
- web.archive.org/web/20130514014126/http://www.google.com/talk
- Image
- Google Talk on BlackBerry.jpg
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- Commons category
- Google Talk
- Stack Exchange tag
- stackoverflow.com/tags/google-talk
- discontinuation date
- 2013-05-15
- publication date
- 2005-08-24
- inception
- 2005-08-24
- software version identifier
- 3.19.1.13088
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Google Talk was an instant messaging service that provided both text and voice communication. The instant messaging service was variously referred to colloquially as Gchat, Gtalk, or Gmessage among its users.
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 OS, BlackBerry 10 and ChromeOS 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.