Google Drive blurs the line between Windows and the web with new desktop shortcuts - millerforcer

Google's unrelenting march into Microsoft's turf continues.

A simple 2 weeks later the release of the Chrome App Launcher for Windows—Google's backdoor into the offline world, basically—the company has announced that when Windows users install the desktop edition of Google Push back, it wish automatically dump shortcuts for Google Docs, Google Sheets, and Google Push on your desktop, along with one for your Drive-based online storage.

Double-clicking on one of those icons opens up the related to web app. After signing in to your Google account you'Ra free to powerhouse through your productivity tasks, and all your work will mechanically save to the cloud, the Google Drive team up explained in a Google+ post. These simple desktop links could prove W. C. Handy indeed for non-techies or people who chose to live their lives in Google's unoccupied, cloud-connected ecosystem, especially if you configure the Force family of apps to figure out offline.

Attractive the online onto the desktop

While default shortcut mopes are worthless corporeal and should be cast back into the depths from which they spawned, Google's move is actually pretty savvy. Non only cause the shortcuts reinforce the fact that Private road is a full productiveness suite rather than a simple cloud depot box, but the like the Chrome app launcher, they also keep Google's service in your chee. Plus, the shortcuts further smother the increasingly hazy line 'tween the desktop and the open web.

"For quite an some time, we've had a duality 'tween web apps and native apps, and one of the things that sets them apart is the ability [for native apps] to be launched from the desktop and have a academic degree of perseveration and independence from the browser," Ross Rubin, principal analyst at Reticle Explore, told PCWorld when the Chrome App Catapult was released. "…People want to interact with their web apps A easily as they do with their desktop apps."

The Chrome App Rocket launcher helps to break kill those walls, and instantly, so will these Drive-related shortcuts.

And Google? Swell, Google makes its money by tossing ads at your eyeballs when you're on the entanglement. Go over PCWorld's Chrome App Launcher psychoanalysis for the full scoop shovel on what Google stands to gain away dumping web apps on your desktop, and look for the Google Drive installation tweak to roll out sometime in the next week.

Source: https://www.pcworld.com/article/453188/google-drive-blurs-the-line-between-windows-and-the-web-with-new-desktop-shortcuts.html

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