Tech giant Google has been making lives of people working from home a bit easier by providing some much-needed apps and features like Google Meet, improved G Suite, Duo and more. The firm rebranded its G Suite apps to ‘Google Workspace’ to make lives of working professionals easier when it comes to accessing documents via cloud and communicating with each other.
The new service includes products like Gmail, Docs, Meet, Sheets, and Calendar along with new features and it will make you feel like they are more deeply stitched with each other than before.
Google Docs, Sheets and Slides will now let users to preview the content of a link without leaving the original document. This will save time in switching between apps and tabs. Also, now when you @mention someone in a document, a popup will display details providing context and suggest actions like sharing the document.
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The search giant, in the coming updates, will let you dynamically create and collaborate on a document (Docs, Sheets, Slides) within a room in Chat, without ever having to switch tabs or tools. And finally, Google will roll out Meet picture-in-picture to Docs, Sheets, and Slides. This feature has already made its way to Gmail inboxes.
The US-based firm has also redesigned the logos of these apps. Although the colour scheme stays the same in Red, Blue, Green and Yellow colours, the looks is flatter and more modern.
Furthermore, Google is launching a new set of subscription tiers for business users. It includes Business Starter ( ₹125 per user per month), Business Standard ( ₹672 per user per month), Business Plus ( ₹1260 per user per month) and Enterprise.