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The long-awaited and much-delayed GDrive is likely to be released in the near future as more pieces of its integration are revealed. Cédric Vergé noticed a change in one of the CSS files for Google Apps: there's a class named "webdrive" and an icon for the new service. When Google released Picasa for Mac, many people wondered what's the mystery behind a menu option titled "Google Web Drive":
Last week, Tony Ruscoe found some traces of an internal Google document which mentioned an update for Google Docs, which will slowly morph into GDrive. Apparently, Google Docs will be the web interface for GDrive, while a Windows/Mac client will integrate the service with the operating system and make it easy to synchronize files.
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Talk of the ever-elusive GDrive first appeared in March 2006, when Google dropped a mention into a PowerPoint presentation intended for a gathering of industry analysts. November of 2007 The Wall Street Journal reported Google was "a few months" away from releasing a hard-drive-meets-net service. The Journal said that Google planned to offer storage for free, while charging for additional space. But the latest rumors point to something a little more prosaic. According to blogs from Google watchers Tony Ruscoe and Alex Chitu, it looks like Google will roll GDrive into the Google Docs and Spreadsheets, offering a means of syncing online files with those on the desktop.
As the latest rumors surfaced, The Guardian told the world that Google was planning to "make PCs history." This was promptly echoed by the likes of FoxNews. "The Google Drive, or 'GDrive,' could kill off the desktop computer, which relies on a powerful hard drive, Instead a user's personal files and operating system could be stored on Google's own servers and accessed via the internet." They said.
