Yes, really. Google Apps is out of Beta now and so are Gmail, Google Calendar, Google Docs and Google Talk. Google announced it on their blog and also tweeted it today and some of its logos already are stripped of the Beta tag. Google Talk and Google Docs still carry the Beta tag at the time of writing this post.
It seems Google has now realized that selling beta services will not be digested or agreed by industry easily. It’s much publicised service Google Apps has been made a ‘Complete’ product now with no Beta components in it. When Google is presenting a case study on how switching from Microsoft Exchange to Google Apps is profitable, the industry and people didn’t like comparing a beta service with a stable, popular and secure(!?) mail service from Microsoft. It had history of going down some time ago and Google compensating its customers for loss of service.
Now, we all can free ourselves from the stigma we have been cursed upon for all these years (5 years for Gmail users) and end the discrimination!
Hail Google. Never be Evil!
(All Google logos courtesy of Google Inc, of course)
