Google Apps Updates
googleappsupdates.blogspot.com · Company blog · on HN since 2009
Google's official announcements for Google Apps administrators, covering product changes, security features, and discontinued browser and mobile support.
What HN saysHN commenters use it to find the original announcement behind a news story, such as Quickoffice removal or IE8 support ending, and one calls a repost blog spam.
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Most-shared posts
- 1Google Apps update alerts: Internet Explorer 8 support discontinued2 people · 121 points · first shared 2012 · 112 comments on HN
- 2Making email safer with new security warnings in Gmail2 people · 3 points · first shared 2016 · discussion on HN
- 3Google Apps audit API2 people · 1 points · first shared 2010 · discussion on HN
- 4Removal of Quickoffice from Google Play and App Store2 people · 1 points · first shared 2014 · discussion on HN
- 5Google Prompt streamlines two-step verification with tap to approve1 people · 8 points · first shared 2016 · 2 comments on HN
- 6Google Apps Update Alerts: Undo Send for Gmail on the Web1 people · 6 points · first shared 2015 · discussion on HN
- 7Deprecation of Gmail App for BlackBerry1 people · 5 points · first shared 2011 · discussion on HN
- 8End of support for Internet Explorer 91 people · 4 points · first shared 2013 · discussion on HN
- 9Preview zip and rar files in gmail1 people · 4 points · first shared 2011 · discussion on HN
- 10Google Apps newsletter – August 20151 people · 3 points · first shared 2015 · discussion on HN
- 11Guest access to Hangouts video calls without a Google account1 people · 3 points · first shared 2015 · discussion on HN
- 12Starting November, No More 32-bit Google Chrome for Mac1 people · 3 points · first shared 2014 · discussion on HN
- 13Chrome to prompt Windows users to reset browser1 people · 2 points · first shared 2014 · discussion on HN
- 14Your emails are even more secure with 100% encrypted HTTPS connections1 people · 2 points · first shared 2014 · 1 comments on HN
- 15A new Google Hangouts Chrome extension experience – Removal of multiple windows1 people · 2 points · first shared 2016 · discussion on HN
What HN people wrote when they linked it
packetslave · 2014-06-29
Blog spam. Actual update is here: http://googleappsupdates.blogspot.com/2014/06/removal-of-quickoffice-f…
carey · 2013-07-13
The article mentions that Microsoft’s systems support silently forwarding email to a “shadow account”. Here’s Google’s announcement of the same functionality, theoretically only available to Google Apps administrators:
http://googleappsupdates.blogspot.com/2010/05/new-api-released-google-…
Any significance to the timing?
thewordis · 2012-12-07
According to another blog post, you can still "switch to it" for the next 30 days. So maybe sign up for paid and then immediately switch to free?
http://googleappsupdates.blogspot.com/2012/12/changes-to-google-apps-p…
ditojim · 2012-10-19
good catch...that's last year's announcement. here is the IE8 announcement: http://googleappsupdates.blogspot.com/2012/09/supporting-modern-browse…
joelhaus · 2011-08-11
Feel for you, and that's a big reason I chose Android. Ironically, DHH wrote about why he digs the core iPhone apps here: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2684433
P.S. Web-based Gmail for mobile apparently got some updates yesterday:
http://googleappsupdates.blogspot.com/2011/08/gmail-for-mobile-now-smo…