{"id":40559,"date":"2020-03-13T12:09:42","date_gmt":"2020-03-13T12:09:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/?guid=5005b6c0dbe17c0db23d09638646c5cd"},"modified":"2020-03-13T12:09:42","modified_gmt":"2020-03-13T12:09:42","slug":"g-suite-hits-two-billion-users-as-remote-working-surges","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/g-suite-hits-two-billion-users-as-remote-working-surges\/","title":{"rendered":"G Suite hits two billion users as remote working surges"},"content":{"rendered":"


\n Bobby Hellard<\/a><\/span>
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13 Mar, 2020<\/span><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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Google’s G Suite service, which includes Gmails, Google Docs, Hangouts and more, surpassed two billion monthly active users at the end of last year, according to its general manager.<\/p>\n

Javier Soltero, who is also the vice president of G Suite<\/a>, made the announcement to Axios<\/em><\/a> on Wednesday.<\/p>\n

He declined to give a detailed breakdown of the numbers, according to Axios<\/em>, so there is little information on what products are used most or how many pay for the service compared with free users.<\/p>\n

G Suite has long been seen as the challenger to Microsoft’s Office services, and Soltero knows both extremely well having left the latter for Google last year.<\/p>\n

But with many companies around the world either entering a period of remote working or are well into self-isolation, Google’s suite of productivity services is already raking in healthy numbers.<\/p>\n

“That’s a staggering number… These products have incredible reach,” he said. “Changing the way people work is something we are uniquely positioned to do.”<\/p>\n

At the start of the month, Google announced parts of its enterprise service would be free<\/a>, for a limited time, to help mitigate the impact of COVID-19 on businesses entering periods of mass remote working. This mainly focused on Hangouts Meet, its video conferencing service.<\/p>\n

Likewise, Microsoft is offering a free six-month trial for Teams<\/a>, according to Business Insider<\/em><\/a>, which was originally just for schools and businesses in China, but has now been expanded globally – this will also come with an update that lifts the restrictions on the number of users per team.<\/p>\n

According to Vox<\/em><\/a>, Team’s saw a 500% increase for meetings, calls and conference usage in China towards the end of January, with those numbers to be likely mirrored in Europe in the coming weeks and, possibly, months. <\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Bobby Hellard<\/p>\n

13 Mar, 2020 <\/p>\n

Google’s G Suite service, which includes Gmails, Google Docs, Hangouts and more, surpassed two billion monthly active users at the end of last year, according to its general manager.
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