When I heard Frontier intended to release the standard beta in june/july 2014, I scoffed. I've backed a few early access things like this and my immediate reaction was more along the lines of "Yeah right! more like 2015", I didn't mind at all but I've learned to take these kinds of assertions from game developers with nano-measures of salt.
On the up side I am really pleased things have come so far, on the downside... I really thought I had longer to save up for a new machine, caught me on the hop a bit, fortunately things seem to be working well regardless!
The moral of this story is of course, if Frontier tell you a thing is happening, then that thing happens, it even happens when they say it will too.