Google Drive Will Offer Up To 100GB Of Cloud Storage, 5GB Free

Google has somewhat upstaged Microsoft’s recent showcasing of the SkyDrive service by confirming its hotly-rumored cloud service. Google Drive is indeed true, with Google Docs users already being ushered towards the transition.

It has been one of those all-but confirmed rumors, but even though some were skeptical about whether Google would launch such a service, it just wouldn’t seem legitimate for the largest and most influential web-based company to not dive in to this increasingly competitive field. For all its imperfections, Google has never been a company not to try its hand at every business area. It had a pop at dethroning Instagram with its Photovine service, but when that flunked, it simply started working on other projects.

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One suspects a cloud battle with Dropbox, iCloud and SkyDrive is much more within Google’s territory. As solid proof that Google Drive isn’t just a rumor or pipe dream, the Big G’s support page for Google Docs now includes some hints on how to transfer Google Docs to a new user, as well as their “Google Drive on the web.”

Aside from the 5GB of free storage rumored, – and offering up to 100GB of cloud storage for a monthly fee – there really is precious little else known about the service. However, far from just being simply a market to corner, the momentum each party stands to lose or gain in the greater gadgetsphere cannot be taken for granted.

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There will undoubtedly be huge public interest to see whether Apple’s relatively fledgling iCloud service, along with Microsoft and Google’s brand-new efforts, and can eclipse the success of the already fully-established Dropbox service.