Google Talk: It's real
Google has released the previously rumored Google Talk, its new program for instant-messaging and voice conversations. Among other things, it creates another big area of competition between Google and Microsoft. About 155 million people worldwide use Microsoft's MSN Messenger instant-messaging program. See coverage by the Wall Street Journal and the New York Times, which has a screen shot of the new service.
The Google Talk site is up and running, inviting downloads. Google's Joe Beda, a former Microsoftie, explains in this post that most of the development of the new product was centered in Google's Kirkland office, the branch it opened last year just down the road from Microsoft.
Posted by Todd Bishop at August 23, 2005 11:17 PM
