[mtgx]

Yes, that pissed me off, too. The messenger is now basically the old G+ Messenger, and not Gtalk.

Also if they were going to do this, they should've done it across all Gtalk platforms at once, so nobody feels the "fragmentation" between the services. I heard it will begin being rolled out to Gmail soon, but still. It all should've happened in day one.

[Hurdy]

It's being rolled out to Gmail since day 1. You can't launch something like this to several 100 millions of users in an hour.