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*[GOOGLE DRIVE] FOR [DESKTOP]*
(released in [2021])
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*GOOGLE BACKUP + SYNC*
*the former ‘desktop backup app’*
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*launched ’24 april 2012′*
(under former title “google docs”)
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–‘google drive’ is a ‘file storage’/’synchronization’ service created by ‘google’-
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(it allows users to…)
*store files in the ‘cloud’*
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*share ‘files’*
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*edit ‘documents’ / ‘spreadsheets’ / ‘presentations’ with collaborators*
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(‘google drive’ encompasses…)
*’google docs” / ‘google sheets’ / ‘google slides’*
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(an ‘office suite’ that permits collaborative editing of…)
‘documents’
‘spreadsheets’
‘presentations’
‘drawings’
‘forms’
(…and more)
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(‘google drive’ had ‘240 million monthly active users’ by ‘october 2014’)
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(‘google’ said in ‘september 2015’ that they had over 1 million ‘individual’ or ‘organizational’ paid users of ‘google drive’, and that they had made new ‘security’ + ‘privacy’ additions)
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