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Throw Your Hard Drive Away Google's ''Gdrive'' Is  Arriving Google-gdriveThrow Your Hard Drive Away Google's ''Gdrive'' Is  Arriving PlatypusclientThrow Your Hard Drive Away Google's ''Gdrive'' Is  Arriving PlatypusChicago (IL) -Releasing in 2009,Code name ''PLATYPUS'' is the Google Drive, or Gdrive as it is better known, has to be the most anticipated Google product so far. When it arrives, Gdrive will likely cause a major paradigm shift in how we use computers and bring Google one step closer to dethroning Windows on your desktop.


The service has the potential to eclipse even Gmail, Google's second best-known product after their google.com search engine. That said, it's no wonder users have been ripe with anticipation for years - yes, that's how long the rumors had persisted. Gdrive is basically online storage where Google servers have unlimited capacity to hold the entire contents of your hard drive. It will likely also come with enough brains to do cool tricks now with bigger things down the road - like booting your computer from online drive to load the Google operating system.

Gdrive is basically a cloud-based storage that should have two faces: A desktop client that keeps local and online files and folders in two-directional sync via a web interface for accessing your desktop files anywhere and anytime, using any network-enabled computer. In addition, it will come tightly integrated with other Google services to enable editing of supported document types, like spreadsheets and presentations via Google Docs, email via Gmail, images via Picasa Web Albums, etc.

This opens powerful possibilities. For instance, you could start working on a spreadsheet at home and continue via Gdrive web interface accessed in an Internet cafe. When you arrive back home, changes to the spreadsheet have already trickled down from the cloud to your desktop. The idea, of course, is all but revolutionary, but Google's execution could set it apart. More Contd at http://www.electricpig.co.uk/2009/01/26/google-gdrive-online-storage-service-coming-2009/ & http://www.tgdaily.com/html_tmp/content-view-41094-140.html

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wow!...their ideas just keep on popping!...intelligent guyzzz!

But i hope this is free Open Grin

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nah...useful for file sharing but not for storing data, I would have to transfer files over the internet which may be slow.

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Either way, cloud computing is the next step.

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seems nice...

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IT CAN'T BE USED AS HDD...I CAN BE USEFULL FOR SHARING AS DOC SIR SAID ABOVE.. LMBO or ROFL

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