Editing Trillian (software) (section)

=== U3 and Google Pack ===
A version of Trillian that could run on [[U3 (software)|U3]] USB flash drives was released on October 21, 2005. Trillian could previously be run from generic flash drives or other storage devices with some minor unofficial modifications, known as "Trillian Anywhere".<ref>[http://trilliananywhere.com/ Trillian Anywhere web site]</ref> A [[U3 (software)|U3]] version of Trillian Astra is also posted on the official Cerulean Studios forum.

On January 6, 2006, [[Larry Page]], President of Products at [[Google]], announced [[Google Pack]], a bundle of various applications including ''Trillian Basic 3.0'' as "a free collection of safe, useful software from Google and other companies that improves the user experience online and on the desktop".

According to the Cerulean Studios blog, Trillian was discontinued from Google Pack on 19 May 2006.<ref>[http://blog.ceruleanstudios.com/?p=47 Cerulean blog] entry on Trillian discontinuation from [[Google Pack]]</ref>

The inclusion of Trillian in Google Pack was perplexing to some media analysts as Google had at the time its own [[Google Talk]] service which touted the benefits of an open IM system. The free Trillian Basic client could not be used with Google Talk, however, the paid Trillian Pro was listed as one of the "client choices" in the Google Talk client choices list<ref>[https://web.archive.org/web/20130131152211/https://www.google.com/talk/otherclients.html List of Google Talk client choices]</ref> until Google Talk was replaced by Google Hangouts in May 2013.<ref>[https://support.google.com/code/answer/55690 Hangouts replacement of Google Talk and XMPP]</ref>