20 PCWorld JANUARY 2020NEWS
IMAGE: GOOGLEGoogle starts the countdown
clock on Cloud Print, gives users
a year to find an alternative
Another one bites the dust. BY MICHAEL SIMONI
n a year that’s seen the death of Inbox,
Google+, and the goo.gl URL shortener
(go.pcworld.com/deat), not to mention
the loss of free original quality photo
storage with every Pixel phone purchase,
Google isn’t putting its knives away just yet.
Next to go is Google Cloud Print (go.
pcworld.com/cprt).
Cloud Print has been around since 2010,but despite a fancy website and deep Android
and Chrome OS integration, it never actually
made it out of beta. And now it never will.
Google has quietly announced (go.pcworld.
com/anou) that users have until December 31,
2020, to enjoy Cloud Print. When the calendar
changes to 2021, “devices across all operating
systems will no longer be able to print using
Google Cloud Print.”