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Google Considers Taking Beta Tag Off Gmail
Barence writes "Google is considering removing the beta tag from Gmail — and other online services — a mere five years after it was first launched. Google has become somewhat synonymous with seemingly endless beta cycles. Many of the company's most famous services, including Gmail, Docs, and Calendar all still carry the beta tag. Google now admits the eternal beta cycles could be damaging consumer and business confidence in its online apps. 'It's a minor annoyance and something you'll see addressed in the not-too-distant future.'"
That'll make things better!
It's a minor annoyance and something you'll see addressed in the not-too-distant future.
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But...but...is it READY?!
Because i still find it annoying to search for porn with my specific fetish.
(you heard me)
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There's no way GMail is ready for "release."
Wait? "BETA" is the NEW industry standard?
I thought releasing shoddy untested products allways was the industry standard.
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GMail Release Candidate 1.
Oh, no! Beta!
They're just moving it to Gamma.
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Probably the fact that the version used by paying customers isn't a beta version? The "beta" version is the free-for-use version that they use to beta test any new features they add.
The corporate and educational versions are really no different from the free versions except that they changed the Gmail Beta jpg and added more storage. They still have a Google Labs Beta in the corporate version so that your employees can enjoy the benefit of unsupported toys like beer goggles.
Why does it take a company with 10,000 engineers 5 years to make a 20 year old communications protocol stable?
If it's really a beta product, they should dump all the user data before they take it to production. After all, it is just test data. No one in their right mind would be using a beta product as their primary email provider, right?
Slashdot should be rewritten in RoR
'cause that will speed it up
Besides this new "Wolfram" search thing is still in Alpha!