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Google Apps Leave Beta
Today Google announced that they're removing the "beta" label from Gmail, Google Calendar, Google Docs and Google Talk. They said, "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 software that sounds like it's still in the trial phase." Quoting the NYTimes:
"'Obviously we haven't had a consistent set of policies or definitions around beta,' said Matt Glotzbach, a director of product management at Google. Mr. Glotzbach said that different teams at Google had different criteria for what beta meant, and that Google felt a need to standardize those. ... Practically speaking, the change will mean precious little to Gmail's millions of users. But it could help Google's efforts to get the paid version of its package of applications, which includes Gmail, Calendar, Docs and other products, adopted inside big companies."
Honestly, having never used the paid versions, I'm not sure. Sorry if that's the case; though since they're based on the same code, I'd then wonder why the free version is marked beta.
It's better to vote for what you want and not get it than to vote for what you don't want and get it.
- E. Debs
Yeah. That's why they have Google Apps for Your Domain.
Put identity in the browser.