{"id":4533,"date":"2022-01-20T03:03:12","date_gmt":"2022-01-20T03:03:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mailinvest.blog\/index.php\/2022\/01\/20\/google-sours-on-g-suite-freeloaders-demands-fee-or-flee-the-register\/"},"modified":"2022-01-20T03:03:12","modified_gmt":"2022-01-20T03:03:12","slug":"google-sours-on-g-suite-freeloaders-demands-fee-or-flee-the-register","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mailinvest.blog\/index.php\/2022\/01\/20\/google-sours-on-g-suite-freeloaders-demands-fee-or-flee-the-register\/","title":{"rendered":"Google sours on G Suite freeloaders, demands fee or flee \u2022 The Register"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Google has served eviction notices to its legacy G Suite squatters: the free service will no longer be available in four months and existing users can either pay for a Google Workspace subscription or export their data and take their not particularly valuable businesses elsewhere.<\/p>\n

“If you have the G Suite legacy free edition, you need to upgrade to a paid Google Workspace subscription to keep your services,” the company said in a recently revised support document<\/a>. “The G Suite legacy free edition will no longer be available starting May 1, 2022.”<\/p>\n

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The G Suite legacy free edition will no longer be available starting May 1, 2022<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

Workspace subscriptions start at $6 per month<\/a> for the most basic membership.<\/p>\n

Google will begin automatically upgrading legacy accounts to Workspace come May but won’t activate those accounts without the submission of payment information. Those who fail to supply payment information for Workplace before July 1, 2022, will find their accounts suspended.<\/p>\n

Suspended accounts can be revived with a subscription fee<\/a>, an arrangement that may sound like a ransomware operation but is really just business as usual. G Suite refugees can avoid this scenario by exporting their data using Google’s Data Export Tool<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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