Team Drives for real collaborative work

Check out the Support article here
https://gsuiteupdates.googleblog.com/2017/05/move-google-drive-files-and-folders.html

Google Drive for Education now Unlimited

Google has just announced unlimited storage with Drive for Education

Unlimited storage: Store as many Google Drive files, Gmail messages, and Google+ photos as you need. Individual file sizes up to 5TB will be supported.

This is Free for Education!

"..Drive has become the cloud storage and sharing solution for more than 190 million people worldwide who use it regularly at home, work and school. For many of the 30 million students and educators using Google Apps for Education.."


here is the official blog post


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Drive... View Stuff

View images, videos, documents, and other files

You can quickly view many file types online with Google Drive, including videos, PDFs, Microsoft Office files, and many image file types. With Google Drive, you can:

• View all of your files at a glance
• Store up to 15 GB of files for free
• Share files with other people without ever having to use an email attachment

Byte Me - Google Drive for Work !

Google Drive for Work — a new premium offering for businesses that includes unlimited storage, advanced audit reporting and new security controls for $10/user/month. 




Read the full Official post  |  Learn more about Drive for Work

Download Attachments Directly to Google Drive

A real time saver - saving attachments directly into Google Drive

Upgraded Features in Google Spreadsheets

Google Drive is a cloud storage and Document creation system. Within Google Drive you have the ability to upload your files or to create Documents, Presentations, Spreadsheets and a lot more.

"Create new documents, spreadsheets, and presentations on your own or share and collaborate with others in real time. All your changes are saved automatically in Drive. There isn't even a save button. Open and edit Microsoft® Office documents, spreadsheets, and presentations on your phone or tablet."

Sheets or Spreadsheet has just recently been updated with a number of new / improved features;-




Learn more about Google Drive here

Save Directly to Google Drive Button

Visitors to your website can now use the Save to Drive button to save files directly to their Google Drive folder, no doubt companies will start to enable the button on their sites;-

Try it out Bigstock and click on the Save to Drive button - http://www.bigstockphoto.com/image-35152352/stock-photo-motor-show

More
To read the full announcement on Google blog;-
http://googledevelopers.blogspot.co.uk/2013/05/an-easier-way-to-save-files-to-google.html

To use the Save to Drive button’s JavaScript API, which allows programmatic and flexible control of the creation of Save to Drive buttons in your web pages see;-
https://developers.google.com/drive/savetodrive#javascript_api

Read the technical documentation;-
https://developers.google.com/drive/savetodrive

Preview Files in Google Drive

Preview files in Google Drive by right clicking and selecting Preview - use the arrows left or right to 'scroll' from document to document or image to image in a folder and use the the mouse wheel to scroll 'down ' from page to page within a document.

Document refers to the broad range of file types you can store, access and otherwise use on Drive and can be a pdf or a Word document.

You can use Ctrl C to copy text from within documents in this preview mode and also use the zoom at the bottom right to increase or decrease the view.

This feature is available to customers on Rapid Release.


Read the full post on the Google Enterprise Blog  or read more about Viewing images, videos, documents, and other files in Drive

Google Drive apps for Android and iOS

Google Drive apps for Android and iOS allows you to access data on the go. With access to files and documents you can collaborate with others seamlessly. Get the apps at;- http://www.google.com/mobile/drive.

Editing Documents Offline !!

It will be possible to edit & comment on Documents offline from July 24th with a number of caveats;-

1. you must be running the latest version of Chrome or ChromeOS and install the Google Drive Chrome app to edit offline.
2. Offline editing is only available for Google documents at this time. It is not yet available for Google spreadsheets or presentations.

There is a sequence of steps to be followed;-

1. Allow offline access for your computer

see http://support.google.com/docs/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=1628469

2. Sync items to view offline
see

http://support.google.com/docs/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=1628512

Tip: use offline editing just for documents that you own since any modifications made by the Document Owner have precedence !!

For more information see http://support.google.com/docs/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=107972

Google launches Drive

Google Drive

• Create and collaborate. 
• Store everything safely and access it anywhere (especially while on the go). 
• Search everything.

5GB of storage for free. You can choose to upgrade to 25GB for $2.49/month, 100GB for $4.99/month or even 1TB for $49.99/month. When you upgrade to a paid account, your Gmail account storage will also expand to 25GB.

See the Official launch info here

This is just the beginning, Drive is an open platform and third party developers are working on features like send faxes, edit videos and create website mockups directly from Drive.

There is significant debate going on with regard to Drive and other competing systems, e.g. Dropbox however just being able to edit files and store / access them across multiples environments is a much more attractive proposition than just synchronisation. (IMHO)