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Gmail Marks Five Years In Beta

Posted by timothy on from the total-up-5-years-of-unread-messages dept.

TrekkieTechie writes "Though in fact the big day was April 1st, Google celebrated the five-year anniversary of the popular online email service Gmail with a post on the service's blog, saying 'we want to give a big thank you to all of you who use Gmail every day, to those who've been around since the beginning, to those who were using an AJAX app before the term AJAX was popular, to those who started chatting right in your email ... we couldn't have gotten here without you.' The milestone has also prompted speculation about when, if ever, Gmail will lose its beta status, and Ars Technica recently sat down with Todd Jackson, Gmail's Project Manager, to discuss the reasoning behind that nagging beta label."

2 of 194 comments (clear)

  1. Re:Why? by karait · · Score: 0, Redundant

    Perhaps because it is the best email service of its type perhaps its just a typo - perhaps it was meant to be Gmail better!

  2. A BETA suffix would do me good by elloGov · · Score: 0, Redundant

    Perhaps I too should adopt a beta suffix. Maybe then I'd get so many on my nuts as Gmail does.