Google Talk services are out across the board. It all started this morning and was out for several hours; it took a while for Google to acknowledge that Hangouts and Google Talk were having a service disruption. This isn't a typical partial network outage either since it affects all users in many regions; although Google didn't formerly admitted to be a service outage. Users attempting to login were stuck in a continuous looping cycle leaving them with the uncertainty that it might be due to their Windows machine. Rebooting of course didn't work; so some people here thought it was a problem with their station and tried to re-install Google Talk only to discover that it is no longer available. I too learned this lesson the hard way after having to re-installing Windows due to an audio problem (which incidentally was triggered by Google Hangouts). For those unfortunate soles who thought it was a problem with their computer, I'm proving a downlo...