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Gmail and other Google Apps ‘Out of Beta’
The Next Web —
... The Google Apps suite launched two years ago and has grown from strength to strength with both consumer usage and enterprise. According to Google, more than 1.75 million companies around the world run the business on Google Apps. ...
Gmail, Google Apps finally come out of beta
Obsessable News Feed —
... It took more than 5 years for Gmail to leave the beta nest, but it along with Google Docs, Calendar and Talk are all shedding the label today. The company says the move has much to do with inspiring confidence in the services to the enterprise customers who use the non-beta versions of the paid apps, yet notice the consumer versions of those apps are still flagged with a moniker that indicates "testing" or "not ready for prime time." ...
Google Grows Up; Removes Beta Tag from Gmail and Other Apps
Mashable! —
... Google’s Chrome web browser only a matter of months to come out of beta, sans many of the features (like extensions) you’d expect from a polished web browser.
That all changes today, as Google has finally decided to take the beta tag off of Gmail, as well as Calendar, Docs, and Gtalk. Users will begin to notice the change – essentially just the removal of the “beta” tag from the respective product logos – starting today.
Google explains the move on their blog:
“We’re often asked why so many ...
Gmail Out of Beta After All These Years
WebProNews Feed —
Today is a landmark day for Google. The company has finally announced that Google Apps is no longer in beta. I suspect this is more of a way to increase the adoption of its services, particularly among businesses, than any new accomplishment being met, but it is what it is. No more beta label on Gmail and other products that fall into Google's cloud offerings category.
On the official Google Blog, Matthew Glotzbach, Director, Product Management, Google Enterprise writes:
Ever since we launched the Google Apps suite for businesses ...
Marketing wins: Gmail leaves beta behind
Preston Gralla's blog —
Gmail has finally gone out of beta, after more than five years of carrying the "beta" label. But it's leaving beta not because of any great technological leap forward, but because Google has been having a hard time selling software labeled beta to enterprises. Today, the official Google Blog announces that Gmail, Google Calendar, Google Calendar, and Google Talk -- the suite that makes up Google Apps -- are all leaving beta. Google makes no bones about it: This is a marketing move. The blog notes: We've come to appreciate that the beta tag just doesn't fit for large ...
Gmail comes out of beta
Tech Digest —
... sorts of potential users - largely in the corporate world - might have been put off by the idea of using software that was only half ready or half safe or experimental or whatever the connotation might have been. So, by removing the label, Google hopes to be removing the stigma too. They promise to continue developing their mail and office products all the same but those of a nervous disposition may now use the joy of the software in piece. If you haven't, I heartily recommend you do. GBlog ...
Google To Businesses: Our Apps Are All Grown Up Now
ChannelWeb Complete Feed —
... to continue making overt moves into the office. The problem for many businesses, as Matthew Glotzbach, director of product management for Google Enterprise, points out on the Official Gmail Blog is that the beta tag tends to imply that a product isn't ready for prime time. The reasons a product or, in this case, a suite of applications may not be ready for business use could include a lack of support. "We've come to appreciate that the beta tag just doesn't fit for large enterprises that aren't keen to run their business on ...
Google To Businesses: Our Apps Are All Grown Up Now
The Channel Wire —
... to continue making overt moves into the office. The problem for many businesses, as Matthew Glotzbach, director of product management for Google Enterprise, points out on the Official Gmail Blog is that the beta tag tends to imply that a product isn't ready for prime time. The reasons a product or, in this case, a suite of applications may not be ready for business use could include a lack of support. "We've come to appreciate that the beta tag just doesn't fit for large enterprises that aren't keen to run their business on ...
Gmail loses beta label; Google "removes doubt" that Apps are enterprise ready
Between the Lines —
... Today, five years after its release, Google’s Gmail has officially shed the Beta label, along with a handful of other Google Apps. For the users, it won’t mean much. Gmail and the other apps will look the same and work the same. But for Google, the dumping of the label is the equivalent of unlocking the gates to the enterprise, a move that should “remove any doubt that Apps is a mature product suite,” the company said. From the official Google blog post : We’ve come to appreciate that the beta tag just doesn’t fit for large enterprises that aren’t keen to run their business on ...
Wait. “Gmail Beta” Isn’t a Registered Trademark?
Digital Daily —
... Gmail is finally out of beta. Five years after it was launched, Google’s email service has gone gold and shed the beta label, having met whatever mysterious criteria the company uses to assess final-release software. Also freed of the beta label, the rest of the Google Apps suite: Google Calendar, Google Docs and Google Talk. ...
Gmail (et al) finally exits beta! Well, at some point today...
Download Squad —
... In perhaps the most shocking news to ever rock the Internet, Google has announced this morning that the beta tag is finally off Gmail (!!!) along with Google Calendar, Google Docs and Google Talk. The change applies to both consumer and enterprise versions. ...
Google brings Gmail, Docs, Calendar, and Talk out of beta
Engadget —
... Guess what, internoodle? Google Apps is officially out of beta. Do you know what that means? It means that Gmail, Docs, Calendar, and Talk are losing that "beta" signage / language you've come to know and loathe. It also means that Google will be taking a much more ...
After five years, Gmail is 'beta' no more!
The Raw Feed —
After five years of being in "beta," Gmail is finally ready for use! Same goes for the Google Apps suit. Google admits that they removed the "beta" designation simply because enterprises were uncomfortable using "beta" software, so they just removed the word "beta." Here's why the whole "beta" thing was a charade all along. ...
Gmail, Google Docs, more finally lose 'beta' tag
Macworld —
... , now Google. The kids are all growed up! Google has finally decided to ditch that pesky beta tag on several of its major projects. After five years of use, Gmail is apparently finally ready for prime time, along with Google Calendar, Google Talk, and Google Docs. The reason for dropping "beta" from the products seems to be largely political: businesses are reluctant to have their critical infrastructure depend on software that's perpetually in beta. By getting rid of the moniker, Google is aiming to convince more enterprises to consider its products as suitable for their ...
Gmail finally slips out of beta
Technology: Technology blog | guardian.co.uk —
... The Official Google Blog now proclaims: Google Apps is out of beta (yes, really). And Matthew Glotzbach, director of product management for Google Enterprise more or les spells out that the decision has been taken for marketing reasons. The beta label sends out the message that software is "not ready for prime time," and Google is keen to sell Google Apps to business users. ...
The day we thought would never come: Gmail (Google Apps) sheds beta tag
Boy Genius Report —
Up until this morning, we would have confidently put big money on Gmail maintaining its beta status for the next hundred years. Seriously… Has a more widely used and reliable service ever held onto its beta tag for so long (that was rhetorical)? To our shock and amazement however, Google has officially removed Gmail from beta status along with Google Calendar, Google Docs and Google Talk. Both consumer and enterprise Google Apps categories are now out of beta in fact, and the latter is certainly the motivation for the change. With 1.75 million companies ...
Google Says Bye-Bye to Beta. Good!
Technologizer —
... “We’re often asked why so many Google applications seem to be perpetually in beta,” begins a post at the Official Google Blog. The post…doesn’t explain why Google loves to label so many things as beta for so long. But it does announce that the company’s taking the bushel of useful apps that make up Google Docs out of beta: Gmail, Google Calendar, Google Docs, and Google Talk are now officially ready for prime time. The beta labels are coming down today. ...
Daily Tech: Gmail and Other Google Apps Finally Out of Beta!
GeekSugar —
... Gmail and other Google apps (like Google Calendar, Google Docs, and Google Talk) are finally out of beta! - GoogleBlog ...
VideoLAN finally hits 1.0
9 to 5 Mac - Apple Intelligence —
It isn't just GMail. Quicktime w/Perian alternative VideoLAN just came out of beta today. VLC offers you a way to watch just about any video out there on the net. It also allows you to watch DVDs without those pesky region coding as well as an important Handbrake helper.
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Google Apps Grow Up.
I4U News —
... Gmail has had that little beta tag attached to it for so long that I don't even notice it anymore. It's been clear for a while now that Google has a different definition of 'beta' from the rest of the world. All of the Google Apps have been in beta since their release, despite being used by over 1.75 million companies from around the world. Folks have wondered for years now when Google's apps were going to come out of beta. Apparently, the answer is today . Google just announced that they are taking off the proverbial training wheels and removing the beta tag from all of their ...
The world’s gone topsy turvy: Google Apps out of beta, VLC hits 1.0
Gadgetell —
... systems are getting 1.0, but the newest iteration of VLC is available for OS X, Ubuntu Linux, and Windows. VLC 1.0 has new HD codecs to decode things like Dolby Digital Plus and Blu-ray Linear PCM.
To pick up a new copy of VLC head on over to the VideoLan.org site. To get the non-beta versions of Google’s various apps—maybe clear your cache and hit reload until you no longer see “beta” on the graphic.
Download: [VLC]
Read: [Official Google Blog]
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Google to enter OS race with a compact hybrid
GMSV —
The five scariest words in tech, as we’ve noted before, are “Google has entered your market,” and Tuesday those words hung over Microsoft headquarters as clearly as if the search sovereign had hired a plane to sky-write the message above Redmond. The day began with Google finally removing the beta label from its Apps productivity suite , signaling to enterprise customers that it should be regarded as a mature, cloud-based alternative to Microsoft Office. And the day ended with Google announcing an offensive long the subject of rumors and predictions, a strike at Microsoft’s ...
For Microsoft and Google, Battleground Shifts to Web-Based Operating Systems
Xconomy —
... The announcement looks to hit Microsoft where it really counts—on its home turf of PC operating systems. It is a direct threat to the Redmond, WA, company’s biggest product, Microsoft Windows. But there is nothing too surprising about this news. With the launch of the Google Chrome browser nine months ago, and applications like Gmail, Google Calendar, and Google Docs finally emerging from beta this week, the move just underscores the idea that Google is getting serious about the Web as the operating system of the future. ...
Google Gmail, Calendar, Docs, and Talk — Now With 100% Less Beta!
The iPhone Blog —
... , brings word we’d almost given up faith at ever being brought’ned. Google apps, including the Gmail, Calendar, Docs, and Talk we love so much on the iPhone (and iPod touch), are out of beta and high on life! Google’s own blog explains-ish: ...
Gmail & Other Google Apps Finally Out of Beta
Search Engine Journal —
... Finally, Google has noticed that its Gmail service has been lingering on the beta mode and finally decided to declare them as out of beta - meaning a full blown web application/service. If you got excited about this news, it only goes to show that you are addicted to Google’s web applications. ...
Google Evolutions: Clouds, Waves, and Shiny Metal
SearchEngineWatch Experts —
... . Further supporting this week's evolutionary step, the set of products under the Google Apps banner (Gmail, Google Calendar, Google Docs, etc.) each lifted the "beta" tag they've held for years. This happened the day before the Google Chrome OS announcement, and is no coincidence. All of these products were made possible over the past five years by broadband penetration and ...
ExtraBITS for 13-Jul-09
TidBITS: Mac News for the Rest of Us —
... Google Apps Finally Leave Beta -- Google has announced that the Google Apps suite - Gmail, Google Calendar, and Google Docs - will finally lose the "beta" designation that had ceased to mean, well, much of anything. (Gmail alone was in beta for 5 years.) Just as Google's "beta" tag had become meaningless, coming out of beta is equally devoid of meaning, with the change happening because Google came to appreciate that large enterprises are uninterested in using software that sounds as though it's still being tested. Users fond of Gmail's beta logo can re-enable it via Gmail ...
