Reasons why Gtalk is still in beta
Posted on 18. Nov, 2006 by Sankaranand in Technology
There are many reasons why Gtalk is still in Beta because it doesn’t satisfy the Basic Etiquette of Instant messengers. Although Google keeps rolling out new features like Orkut Integration, Voice mail, File Transfer, Off line messaging etc but someone needs to draw Google’s Attention on fixing some bugs users experience with it.
Its not a matter of how many features you have, but how they actually work. Lets have an overview of major problems and dislikes that some of users facing with Google Talk.
- After the Integration of Google Talk with Orkut, sometimes it disables features like GMail Notifications, File Transfer, Voice mail and hides the mail icon absolutely. You won’t find settings for Orkut and Notifications
- Window Focusing and Pop Window Conversation is an annoying feature in Gtalk which works even when you disable all notifications in settings. There should be an option to disable it completely and make it stay like idle.
- Automatic Integration of Gtalk Music Integration with Windows Media Player,currently you need to set the plug in WMP settings but most of them actually think that Gtalk cannot actually show tracks from WMP.
- Unintuitive sorting and showing them as online status, many users have experienced this problem actually.
Hope the Google Team will make Google Talk more better with consideration.
Ben
Dec 12th, 2006
Correctly pointed out.>!!! Still lot of improvement is required with this IM client. Gtalk does not support Conference feature which is been widely used these days. Folks if you like to try Voice conference with Gtalk here is the trick http://www.benh.org/techblog/2006/08/google-talk-conference-calling-tips.html
Sankar Anand
Dec 12th, 2006
Thanks Ben ! Nice tips on Gtalk Conference
Ankur Raheja
Dec 12th, 2006
One more point… today Google talk showed my account as blocked…
Then have to fill up some form on their site to enable it… dont know the reason???
Sankar Anand
Dec 13th, 2006
is it so ? did you try to access any google’s Sandbox website or test site ?
Ankur Raheja
Dec 14th, 2006
Now I know why google is still beta… as when I logged in all my contacts are missing from the list, and it no more shows I am online on Orkut…
Please provide link to the Google test Site…
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