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Google Earth for Windows has supposedly graduated from beta to full release status as stated on the main Google Blog. However, despite this claim, the current version available for download is the same build number 3.0.0762 from November last year.

Maybe they thought that this build was "good enough", which is a shame since it still proclaims it's beta status quite prominantly:

• When you sign up, if there are problems signing in it states "Google Earth is in beta, and we're still building out our ability to take on new users. We're making good progress, and expect to be able to accept new users shortly, so we recommend try accessing again in xx hours."
• The extra program GPSBabel which Google distributes with Google Earth, and which is used to convert output from GPS receivers into data that can be displayed in Google Earth is at version 1.2.1_beta. This version is seriously out of date (and in my experience so bugged as to be practically useless) - I'd recommend making sure you get hold of the latest version (either 1.2.7, or a beta of 1.2.8) as soon as you can.

The same announcement also notes that Google Earth is also available for the Mac OS X 10.4.