G Suite is now Google Workspace

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Google is announcing a big rebranding and redesign for its suite of office apps today, rebranding G Suite with a new name: Google Workspace. Along with the new branding for the product that encompasses Gmail, Docs, Meet, Sheets, and Calendar are new features designed to make all those products feel like they’re more integrated with one another.

Source: G Suite is now Google Workspace in a bid to merge Gmail, Chat, and Docs – The Verge

Google is looking at leveraging all of the Google Workspace apps in each other. Some of the upcoming features include create documents from with Google Chat automatically shared with the people on the chat. You’ll also be able to start a Google Meet directly from a shared Google Document.

The G Suite apps were always very good with collaboration, and it looks like Google Workspace dials it up to 11.

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