Google's online storage service will enter a competitive field of similar offerings from Microsoft, whenever it enters the field, that is. Those who remember when tech information arrived in thick, ad-stuffed trade journals probably recall the Microsoft model of announcing a not-yet-launched product to stifle discussion of services from rival companies. In that time, such stories worked to give Microsoft time to either compete or buy the competitor.
Web services and wider broadband Internet availability have knocked that strategy into the history books. But it's difficult not to see a parallel between Microsoft's vaporware articles of the 1990's and the latest discussion of Google's online storage service, GDrive, in the Online storage from Google will have its uses. The really useful feature, fast uploads, is something even Google's brightest engineers won't be able to address, whenever GDrive launches.Suggest a Correction
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