12/30/2023 0 Comments Google drive date launchedBut clearly Google intends to keep listening to customers and putting out products that they want. Questions about Google’s plans to further expand it’s online office offerings went unanswered today, and Google doesn’t even like to use the “office” name. Google notes that individuals and small & medium sized businesses aren’t too concerned – Google’s security precautions are probably far beyond what they are doing anyway. The fact that an internal Google document about their Project “Platypus” was discovered on Writely earlier this year only perpetuates these concerns (Google says this was not a security breach, however). And use of Google’s online office applications is free.Ī drawback of online office applications is the fact that potentially sensitive documents are stored on Google’s servers. Still, the ability to import and collaborate on a document, and then publish it to the web or take it back to the desktop, is a powerful feature not available to Microsoft Office users outside of Office Live or Microsoft Sharepoint Portal Server. Google is straightforward in its goal to excel in collaboration and sharing of documents, while agreeing that desktop office applications will continue to offer superior editing features for the foreseeable future. Notably absent is the ability to embed spreadsheets directly into writely documents, a feature already offered by Zoho, which has been furiously updating its own office suite (Google says this feature is coming). For example, chat previously available only on the spreadsheet product, is now available when working on a writely document as well. The interfaces and features of the two products have also been mostly mirrored to provide a consistent user experience. The new site shows all of a user’s writely and spreadsheet documents in a single list, but integration goes no further for now. I had an unexpected opportunity to meet the team and take a look at the product earlier today along with a few other bloggers. This is not a deep product integration, but it is another shot across the bow of Microsoft Office. It integrates the previously separate Writely and Spreadsheet product silos into a single control panel and admin area (the previous sites for those products redirect to docs.google). What are your views? Do drop in your comments.Google just launched Docs & Spreadsheets at. What remains to be seen if Google Drive is actually targeting Dropbox because I think they have their eyes trained more on Apple’s iCloud and Microsoft’s SkyDrive. So some of the features like collaborative work on a single document by many and seeing the changes in real-time will surely add muscle to the new product. I do think that Google will bring in more features than Dropbox does as Google Drive seems like a natural extension of Google Docs. The technology though is not very accurate at this stage. This means if we scan a letter as an image, it could search for a particular keyword even from the scanned copy. ![]() Google is also bringing in OCR to Google Drive.This is a feature what was only released on Dropbox very recently. Files from Google Drive can be shared with others with just a link.It also has an Android app with iPad and iPhone apps expected in the future. The new service will work on Windows PC, Mac.Amazingly you can move up to 25 GB for $2.50 per month. That is a pretty large size for anyone with normal storage needs. Every new user will be allowed 5 GB free.Just visit the Google Drive landing page and check if it is ready for your account. The new cloud service is being rolled out for everyone with a Gmail account. Google now finally has launched this new feature called Google Drive. The rumours of Google launching a cloud storage service have been around for over 2 years (if not more).
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