Google Drive Launches Desktop Apps Directly

The folks over at Google have a knack of making their apps and services feel as though they are an indispensable part of computing life. After all, how many of us are able to say that we would be all right without Gmail? I am also quite sure that a number of us do store many of our working documents on the cloud, with Google Drive being one of those services that millions and millions of use daily, accessing them not only on the desktop, but through mobile devices as well. Looks like Google wants to make things better for us by bringing Google Drive to Microsoft Office.

Basically, if you were to make use of the brand new Google Drive plug-in, those who make use of Office for Windows are now able to open their Word, Excel and PowerPoint documents which are stored in Drive, before saving any changes back to Drive the moment you are done with those documents.

Should you be working on a document, spreadsheet or presentation that happens to reside on your computer, you also have the ability to save that file to Google Drive, and to do so straight from the Office apps, now how efficient and ingenious is that? This would come in handy when it comes to sharing files with teams, or if you would like to access your files across multiple devices. [Press Release]

Edwin Kee
Categories: Computers
Tags: Google, google drive