Google announces a lot of updates and changes, including a new name for things




Yesterday afternoon Google announced a ton of updates and one big new thing - a new name for Google Apps. It is now "G Suite". They also changed the name for all of their services to Google Cloud.


It is a name change to better align with all of their offerings and products and the services and apps are still the same. Different name, same great products. The name change has already gone out in the Admin help page, Google+ community and more.

For Google for Education, there are now 4 areas - G Suite for Education (Docs, Sheets, Slides, Forms, Sites, Gmail, Calendar, Drive), Classroom, Chromebooks, and Content (Creative Apps).

There were also some announcements with product and feature updates:

Introducing Google Cloud - Today we’re announcing Google Cloud, Google’s unique and broad portfolio of products, technologies and services that let our customers operate in a digital world easily and at peak performance.

All together now. Introducing G Suite. G Suite is a set of intelligent apps—Gmail, Docs, Drive, Calendar, Hangouts, and more—designed to bring people together, with real-time collaboration built in from the start.

People all over the world working together seemlesly

G Suite website - includes all of the tools that were part of Google Apps






Feature announcements:

View deleted files with the latest Google Docs, Sheets, and Slides Android apps

Save time with smart scheduling in Google Calendar

What you love about Google Search — now for Drive


Explore in Docs, Sheets and Slides makes work a breeze — and makes you look good, too

Google Cast is now built in to Chrome

Chrome on Android: Do more on every phone and network








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