Comments on: Google Apps shed beta label

It's finally graduation day for Google Apps: Gmail, Google Docs, Google Calendar, and Google Talk are no longer saddled with the beta tag.

[monkeyfun14]

Oh snap Google takes something out of beta its a miracle.

[BK216]

Its long been said that the day gmail comes out of beta is the day Google takes over the world.....uh oh

[cvaldes1831]

LOL, I guess their graphic designer came back from sabbatical.

[FargoUT]

My favorite part of this story is that Gmail has created a "Back to Beta" feature in their Labs, which will re-enable the "Beta" label, for those who will miss it. LOL

[deuceswyyld]

Does this mean that the apps are now accessible with screen readers? If not, is Google only testing the logo without the beta label? That has been their accessibility scapegoat for years...

This smells like an attempt to add some/other press over the negative press from yesterday. I expected something worth reading/using... Google, you can do better than this.

[queticomn]

*yawn*

[cvaldes1831]

****, the "beta" tag is gone from Gmail. Lo, it is the End of Days.

(Hmmm, this reminds me that I have to make an appointment with my eye doctor.)

[Jonathan]

As far as I can tell they got rid of the ability (Under labs) to put your labels on the right! Screw you Google!!!! >:(

[Vegaman_Dan]

Meanwhile, a report has been released indicating Google is laying off another large sizable chunk of their staff, going mostly after the contractors that run their IT departments and the Google FTE's that manage them. There is no replacement workforce for them, but it doesn't bode well when you start laying off large numbers of the support personnel- that means that there will be more layoffs of the people those techs normally would be supporting as well.

Source:

http://www.webguild.org/2009/07/google-layoffs-deep-cuts-underway.php

[greenoak--2008]

This could be bad. Beta sort-of by default means that the software comes with no cost (other than targeted ads). Not-Beta could mean they start charging (real money) for the services we've all been using for what... a couple years now?

[pentest]

The way most companies including Google and MS use the term beta and version numbers have no basis in reality. To them it is a marketing term.

[Brent212]

Too bad it still forces you to indent replies. Despite its new non-beta status, I don't want to use it.

[hsnsereen]

hllo welcom ilve yoo

[viky prabu]

So what? Why every blog wastes the user's time in blogging this useless matter?