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Google Chrome no more Beta
By siliconindia
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Friday, 12 December 2008, 18:39 IST |
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San Francisco: The California online search firm Google, which is known for leaving new software offerings in beta, quickly removed beta tag from its Web browser Chrome and put a stamp of approval on it after just 100 days of its release.
The company says Chrome, which was launched in a direct challenge to Microsoft's ubiquitous Internet Explorer, proved its merits in a relatively brief time.
At the same time, Google's free web-based Gmail service still bears a beta label even though it was launched nearly five years ago.
Chrome has undergone 15 iterations since its launch with fixes and modifications engineered based on feedback from some of the more than 10 million people worldwide who have started using the browser.
"We have removed the beta label as our goals for stability and performance have been met but our work is far from done," Google engineering director Linus Upson and product management vice president Sundar Pichai wrote in an online posting.
Google and Microsoft have been in an escalating war, with the Redmond, Washington-based software goliath striving to unseat Google as king of Internet search and advertising.