Google Replaces Beta Tag With Price Tag on Apps
Collaboration, Personal Productivity, SaaS July 7th, 2009
Just a short note:
- After 5 years Google Apps are no longer considered Beta.
- They may not be free for long? The free version is still available, but takes some digging to find – I wonder if it’s intentional…
Guess who will welcome GooGreed with a big smile? Zoho.
Update:Â TechCrunch has the clarification from Google:
In experimenting with a number of different landing page layouts, the link to Standard Edition was inadvertently dropped from one of the variations. We are in the process of restoring it and you should see it soon. We have no intention of eliminating Google Apps Standard Edition, and are sorry for the confusion.
Related posts:
- Paving the road to Apps adoption in large enterprises
- Gmail leaves beta, launches “Back to Beta” Labs feature
- Google finally rips the beta label off Gmail and other Google Apps
- Google Apps Premier Demo Accounts
Tags: beta, beta software, freemium, gmail, Google, google apps, googreed, office, Personal Productivity, SaaS, zoho
The Skype Downgrade Experience
Collaboration, Personal Productivity October 1st, 2008
First, kudos to Skype for listening to customers, many of whom considered the first Skype 4.0 beta’s full-screen a deal-breaker. Yes, they listened and gave us a compact view, somewhat similar to good old 3.x, which is why I installed it in the first place, but after an hour or so I am ready to uninstall.
In a nutshell: the new Skype is great for single-channel communication, long video calls with one person, but if you’re a multi-tasker (aren’t we all?) who usually has several chat windows open at a time, you’ll be disappointed.
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Tags: beta, chat, communication, IM, instant messaging, multichannel, multitasking, skype, skype beta, trillian, video chat, videophone, voip
Zoli Erdos
