Google launches a much better Hangouts app for your desktop

Using Hangouts on the desktop is about to get way better. Today Google revealed a new Hangouts Chrome App for Chrome OS and Windows that always keeps conversations quickly accessible alongside whatever else you're working on or doing on a PC or Chromebook. If that sounds a lot like Facebook Messenger's Chat Heads, it's because that's pretty much exactly what this is: Chat Heads on the desktop — but with Hangouts instead of your Facebook conversations. Google is promising a "streamlined" design that won't get in the way or prove bothersome when you're trying to get work done; it's also possible to toggle off the persistent view entirely by the sounds of it.

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