Google makes Workspace and Chat available to all and adds client-side encryption for data on Workspace
nicely, this time—what a disservice Google's blog posts were to the products it was trying to launch today. This is not an effective way to communicate. https://blog.google/... https://twitter.com/... @rafat : I predict the next launch from Google will be....Google Wave! https://www.theverge.com/... Frederic Lardinois / @fredericl : Judging by the Hacker News comments, nobody really understands the Google Workspace/GSuite update today - or what the Rooms/Spaces name change is about - or the paid individual accounts. https://news.ycombinator.com/ ... Sar Haribhakti / @sarthakgh : Looks like some VP at Google changed the OKR from launching new communication apps every quarter to renaming them! Honestly I love it Lets Chat Room Spaces later today! https://www.theverge.com/... Harry McCracken / @harrymccracken : I don't use Google messaging products much in part because there are so many solid alternatives that don't feel like they're going out of their way to be baffling. https://twitter.com/... Ron Amadeo / @ronamadeo : This is one of the worst-written Google blog posts I've ever read. I'm still struggling to understand it. Please just plainly explain what is happening, if it's optional or not, and how to turn it on or off. https://blog.google/... Rick Klau / @rklau : “The key idea is that users can more easily switch between ‘modalities’ of communication.” Because if there's one thing your average user has been begging for, it's *checks notes* modality switching. https://www.theverge.com/... https://twitter.com/... Mcc / @mcclure111 : Theory: The big UX Trend of the next five years will be every product by every company adding a feature called “Spaces” that you don't understand what it does, don't care what it does, and don't have a need for, but which they aggressively foist on you anyway https://twitter.com/... John Legere / @johnlegere : I just want to work in Google Docs in PEACE!! https://www.theverge.com/... Pete Voss / @petevoss : #googleworkspace #security #news around Client-side encryption is now No. 2 on @techmeme https://twitter.com/... Sundar Pichai / @sundarpichai : Happy to share that the fully integrated @GoogleWorkspace experience, including smart canvas that we announced at #GoogleIO, is now available to everyone with a Google account. https://blog.google/... Dan Seifert / @dcseifert : meanwhile, Google is still selling the vastly inferior Pixelbook Go for these silly prices https://twitter.com/... Zack Whittaker / @zackwhittaker : Google will let enterprises store their Google Workspace encryption keys, making the data indecipherable to Google. For now keys will be stored by a third-party, but an API will let organizations store their keys on their own servers. https://techcrunch.com/... Dan Seifert / @dcseifert : you know what would have gone really great with this Google Workspace / Chat news? an updated and refreshed Pixel Book https://www.theverge.com/... Dieter Bohn / @backlon : Okay so Google Workspace and Google Chat are officially available to everybody — but of course the thing I'm noting is that they're finally going to offer a real Progressive Web App for Workspace in September. https://www.theverge.com/... https://twitter.com/...
Google is gradually moving from introducing new communication apps every four months to simply renaming existing ones twice a year. But the overall goal remains: to ensure that under no circumstances do you ever know which Google product you are using https://www.theverge.com/...…
I once wrote a blog post about how Microsoft's UI in 2012 approached self-parody and now Google has reached and surpassed that bar: https://www.theverge.com/... https://twitter.com/...
Remember the Disha Ravi case, where GoI asked google to give information on who authored the G-Doc? Now with this, nothing prevents a legal entity to create docs which even Google won't have access to. And that makes Google SSM as per IT rules. Let the party begin.😀 https://twitt…
Editing Google's blog post. I just want to stress again—nicely, this time—what a disservice Google's blog posts were to the products it was trying to launch today. This is not an effective way to communicate. https://blog.google/... https://twitter.com/...
Judging by the Hacker News comments, nobody really understands the Google Workspace/GSuite update today - or what the Rooms/Spaces name change is about - or the paid individual accounts. https://news.ycombinator.com/ ...
Looks like some VP at Google changed the OKR from launching new communication apps every quarter to renaming them! Honestly I love it Lets Chat Room Spaces later today! https://www.theverge.com/...
I don't use Google messaging products much in part because there are so many solid alternatives that don't feel like they're going out of their way to be baffling. https://twitter.com/...
This is one of the worst-written Google blog posts I've ever read. I'm still struggling to understand it. Please just plainly explain what is happening, if it's optional or not, and how to turn it on or off. https://blog.google/...
“The key idea is that users can more easily switch between ‘modalities’ of communication.” Because if there's one thing your average user has been begging for, it's *checks notes* modality switching. https://www.theverge.com/... https://twitter.com/...
Theory: The big UX Trend of the next five years will be every product by every company adding a feature called “Spaces” that you don't understand what it does, don't care what it does, and don't have a need for, but which they aggressively foist on you anyway https://twitter.com/…
Happy to share that the fully integrated @GoogleWorkspace experience, including smart canvas that we announced at #GoogleIO, is now available to everyone with a Google account. https://blog.google/...
Google will let enterprises store their Google Workspace encryption keys, making the data indecipherable to Google. For now keys will be stored by a third-party, but an API will let organizations store their keys on their own servers. https://techcrunch.com/...
Okay so Google Workspace and Google Chat are officially available to everybody — but of course the thing I'm noting is that they're finally going to offer a real Progressive Web App for Workspace in September. https://www.theverge.com/... https://twitter.com/...