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     If your a user of Gmail (Google Email), Calendar, Google Docs, or Google Talk, then as of today your no longer using a Beta project. 

    From a post on the Google Blog http://googleblog.blogspot.com/ (http://googleblog NULL.blogspot NULL.com/)

“We get asked all the time why Google keeps its products in beta for so long. And Gmail, five years after launch, is consistently a subject of this questioning, even of jokes.
Some people thought that once we opened sign-ups (http://googleblog NULL.blogspot NULL.com/2005/08/sign-up-for-gmail NULL.html), Gmail should have come out of beta.”

“Ever since we launched the Google Apps (http://www NULL.google NULL.com/apps/intl/en/business/index NULL.html#utm_medium=blog&utm_source=us-en-ogb-oob0707&utm_campaign=oob) suite for businesses two years ago, it’s had a service level agreement, 24/7 support, and has met or exceeded all the other standards of non-beta software. More than 1.75 million companies around the world run their business on Google Apps, including Google. 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. So we’ve focused our efforts on reaching our high bar for taking products out of beta, and all the applications in the Apps suite have now met that mark”

So basically since Google has a focus on business customers (not saying that they want to ignore you and me, but business customers are paying customers) and Google has realized that business customers may have a hard time justifying paying for software that is “Not ready for prime time” which is basically the understood definition for “beta”.  So with that in mind if you use these applications from Google your no longer using a Beta.