Google phases out Gchat to focus firepower on Hangouts

Google has announced it is to end support for Talk, its ageing communication tool for Gmail, in order to concentrate resources on the more feature-rich Hangouts service.
Hangouts was first launched way back in 2013 but Google has kept Talk, colloquially referred to as Gchat, on as a legacy platform for people happy with a more basic level of service.
That stance however, changes on 26 June when Google forcibly migrates stragglers to its new service.
The brute force approach follows a four-year p