For the past few
years, many webmail users around the world have collectively agreed that Gmail
is one of Google’s greatest application creations next to search. It has often
been wondered why so many highly ranked Google applications like it seem to be
perpetually in beta form.
The free webmail service was launched on April Fool’s Day
2004 and was marked as “beta invite-only” until February 2007. As of today, it
houses over 100 million accounts, but the bigger news of the day is that the
entire Google Apps suite has finally come out of its beta shell and are now
recognized as a prime time applications. ’Beta’ will be removed from the product logos
today, but we'll continue to innovate and improve upon the applications whether
or not there's a small "beta" beneath the logo. Indeed, today we're
also announcing some
other Google Apps features that we think will appeal to large enterprises: mail
delegation, mail retention and ongoing enhancements to Apps reliability."
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Gmail finally goes out of beta
And several other Google Apps