Gmail, Google Apps Officially Remove Beta Tag

Google has announced that it is dropping the “Beta” from many of its services including Gmail, Google Talk, Google Calendar, Google Docs and Google Video for Business. For most of us this is a mere technicality since the services are already reliable standards, but Google hopes the move will lure more businesses away from software-based applications to its own Google Apps. Google email services already offer a major advantage over those provided by the big players like Microsoft and IBM in that Google hosts the servers off-site.

“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,”  senior product manager, Google Apps Rajen Sheth wrote in a blog announcement.

Google Labs users can reactivate the Beta label on Gmail by accessing it from the “Labs” tab under settings, just in case they need that daily reminder of ongoing development and ingenuity. [via PC World]