The search giant is set to take on popular storage service, Dropbox, with its new offering, technology site Read Write Web reports. It is expected to offer 5GB of free storage – 3GB more than Dropbox’s capacity. People will be able to pay for more storage. However, prices are not yet known.
Users can put their files into Google Drive and then access them on their desktop, mobile phone or tablet. It is expected that the service work on Mac, Windows, Android and iOS – all via drive.google.com.
People can make changes to a file on one device, and they will be reflected on all platforms.
Google already has storage systems for music and documents but it is not yet known what sharing features between these services Google Drive will allow.
The tagline for the service is: “All your files – everywhere”. Google Drive is expected to allow people mobile app document editing capabilities.