Google Chat gets messaging interoperability with Slack and Teams

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Google has been adding new features to its Workspace apps. After rolling out Duet AI capabilities to all the different apps such as Gmail, Docs, Slides, and Drive, and the new home screen redesign for Google Chat, the company's native chat messenger is getting another important feature upgrade. Powered by Mio, a cross-platform collaboration tool, Google Chat will now offer messaging interoperability to other messaging platforms such as Slack and Microsoft Teams.

The new feature was announced by Google recently in a blog post that said, “If your organization uses a mixture of messaging tools, you can now use Mio to enable messaging interoperability between Google Chat and other platforms such as Slack and Teams”. This feature is currently in beta testing. The feature is expected to arrive in 2024.

As per the blog post, using this feature will be quite easy as most of the heavy lifting is being done by Mio. Users can connect Google Chat with other messaging tools that are being used in the organization and both receive all messages on a single platform as well as respond to them from a single window.

Explaining the reason behind adding this feature, the blog post explained, “We know that communication and collaboration happen over multiple channels and tools. This can cause missed messages, silos of communication, and a frustrating experience monitoring multiple chat tools”.

This feature will be made available to Google Workspace Business Starter, Business Standard, Business Plus, Essentials Starter, Enterprise Essentials, Enterprise Essentials Plus, Enterprise Standard, Enterprise Plus, Frontline Starter, Frontline Standard, and Nonprofits customers.

Alongside, Google Chat has also added a native feature of voice messages. The