Google Drive Goes Live

lemmen writes "As widely expected, Google Drive has launched officially today. Google Drive is free for the first 5GB, while you can get an upgrade to 25GB for $2.50 a month. They say the service is available for PCs, Macs, Android devices, and soon iOS devices. According to Mercury News, '... the success of Drive will ride largely on whether Google can differentiate its offering from already established fast-growing cloud storage startups that were in the market first, such as Dropbox and Box, as well as Microsoft's SkyDrive service and big consumer media competitors like Apple's iCloud and Amazon's Cloud Drive. ... Existing Google Docs files, the centerpiece of Google's existing cloud storage offering, will move to the Google Drive service once users download apps and install the new service."

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[cpu6502]

One word:
Microsoft.

How many chances am I supposed to give this company? They've let me down almost every time... the earliest being when I tried to multitask in Windows 3 and it hung the system repeatedly (cooperative tasking sucks). Then I tried to play Wing Commander and it refused to run (I ended-up playing Commodore Amiga instead). More recently MS media player refuses to execute half the movies I throw at it. TG for VLC player.

Windows XP is the first stable OS to come out of that company, so I had high hopes they had turned around... but then I experienced Vista. :-( Better to avoid MS as much as possible. I'll use their OS because it's the defacto-standard, but nothing else.