I wish people would think about what they wrote on the web. Check out this article about Google’s “GDrive” that a friend of mine sent me a link to:
The Google Drive service, which will reportedly launch later this year, allows users to store information online on Google’s own servers rather than on the hard drive.
Okay, so far so good. I currently use Dropbox to manage my files, and a service like this from Google would be kinda cool. Let’s continue.
The process has been dubbed ‘cloud computing’ and is being seen as ‘the most anticipated Google product so far’.
I’m not sure if I’d go quite this far. The closest thing Google has to cloud computing is Google Docs… but I don’t know if having an online hard drive would be considered “cloud computing.”
The GDrive would mark a departure from the Microsoft Windows operating system and will enable users to treat their computer as software rather than hardware.
Wait, what? So I turn on some magic box with no operating system, and somehow I have access to some files somewhere on Google’s farm? We went from having an online hard drive to having a thin client at my desk. When did this happen?
#1 by Webster - February 1st, 2009 at 21:58
Funny how the G Drive gets a lot of press, and Microsoft’s 25GB Skydrive (which is also free and came out a while ago) was not mentioned nearly as much. I’m not a huge fan of MS by the way, just thought it was interesting to note.