Gmail is out of beta. After five years and plenty of industry snickering and corporate complaining, Google announced Tuesday the online messaging service is now an official "shipping" product. Google Calendar, Google Docs and Google Talk were all stripped of their beta tags as Google upgraded the pieces of its Google Apps Premier Edition (GAPE) suite to the status of a finished product. While Google claims the move is just semantics, it acknowledges that the "beta" tag was making corporate users uneasy and often unwilling to commit.
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