Google drops ‘beta’ tag from Google Apps products (Gmail, Google Docs, etc.)

After 5 years of officially being in 'beta', the company finally seems to have dropped this tag (officially) from the products in their Google Apps suite. Now all of the companies that feared using the products (Google Mail, Google Calendar, Google Docs, and Google Talk) because of that one little word (which has become meaningless online; although for Google, it had more internal meaning than anything) may now enjoy the array of benefits that you can only find at Google.

Over 1.75 billion businesses are currently using Google Apps, according to Google. Also, Google has made it clear that they will "continue to innovate and improve upon the applications whether or not there's a small "beta" beneath the logo".

Read the original article at Google's Official Blog.

Of course, if you happened to enjoy seeing that little Beta tag, Google feels for you! They've included a labs tool entitled "Back to Beta" which is described as "Soothes the soul by putting the familiar beta sticker back on the Gmail logo." Be sure to enable that to make the transition on your own terms Heh.