PC World - USA (2020-11)

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18 PCWorld NOVEMBER 2020

NEWS G SUITE BECOMES GOOGLE WORKSPACE


an evolution of the basic G Suite apps,
which haven’t changed. “The productivity
apps you know and love in G Suite aren’t
going away—Gmail, Calendar, Drive, Docs,
Sheets, Slides, Meet, Chat, and all the others
will continue to be the foundation of the
Google Workspace experience,” Google
added in a support document (go.pcworld.
com/sdcm). “In the future, we’ll continue to
evolve our products to be more flexible,
more helpful, and simpler.”
Google has also published the prices of
its three Workspace plans (go.pcworld.com/
prpl): the $6/user/mo Business Starter, the
$12/user/mo Business Standard, and the
$18/user/mo Business Plus plans.
The Business Starter plan comes with 30GB
of cloud storage
per user, video
meetings up to
100 participants.
Business Standard
offers a sharp
jump in per-user
cloud storage: up
to 2 terabytes,
along with
150-participant
meetings plus the
ability to record
them. The premier
new Business Plus
tier adds 5TB of
cloud storage per

users, meetings up to 250 participants with
attendance tracking, plus additional features like
eDiscovery and enhanced security and
management controls.
Both the Business Starter and Business
Standard plans existed under G Suite (go.
pcworld.com/prpl) already, at the same
prices, though they were called “Basic” and
“Business,” respectively. The transition to
Google Workplace comes with some tighter
strings, though. Previously, users received
unlimited cloud storage with G Suite’s $12/
mo Business offering, but Google
Workspace’s new Business Starter and
Business Plus tiers put 2TB and 5TB limits on
accounts, respectively. That’s spacious for
sure—but not unlimited.

One of the new features of Google Workspace is picture-in-picture collaboration.
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