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Google Drive Launching Next Week With 5GB Free Space

Posted by Soulskill on from the not-their-autonomous-car-project dept.

An anonymous reader writes "The Next Web is reporting that Google Drive, the search giant's long anticipated cloud storage service, is set to launch next week. From the article: 'What's interesting though is that Google is planning to start everyone with 5 GB of storage. Of course you can buy more, but that trumps Dropbox's 2 GB that is included with every account. Dropbox does make it easy to get more space, including 23 GB of potential upgrades for HTC users. What's also interesting is the wording related to how the system will work. It's been long-thought that Windows integration will come easy, but that getting the Google Drive icon into the Mac a la Dropbox would be a bit harder. From what we're reading, Google Drive will work "in desktop folders" on both Mac and Windows machines, which still leaves the operation question unanswered.'"

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  1. Re:Google Drive by binarylarry · · Score: -1, Troll

    ick Microsoft? Really?

    I bet DEC is offering 50GB of space!

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  2. Re:Google Drive by Lumpy · · Score: 0, Troll

    Nobody is using skydrive. Microsoft has to offer than t much to even attract people.

    Dropbox is still eating microsoft lunch on their skydrive.

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  3. Re:Google Drive by binarylarry · · Score: -1, Troll

    But Windows Shill, you forgot to mention all the great new features in the Lumia 900 and how easy it is to program for it using Microsoft Visual Studio and the .NET platform!

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  4. Re:Google Drive by binarylarry · · Score: -1, Troll

    Oh Windows Shil, don't be so bashful (LOL @ Windows Shill being "Bash"ful ROFL)

    Can you tell me more about the amazing Microsoft SharePoint, which I can use in conjunction with fantastic business tools like Microsoft Great Plains to increase my productivity and my profitability?

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  5. Re:Google Drive by drkstr1 · · Score: -1, Troll

    Eclipse beats the shit out of VS. And don't even get me started on that god awful MySQL management studio. What, is this the 90's? You know your product sucks when a PHP based web interface does it 100 time better...

    I normally wouldn't lay it on so thick, but obvious shill is obvious. Good god man, don't they teach you subtly in shill class?

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