Google is opening up its Docs hosted office productivity suite so that users can store any type of file in it, giving the popular software-as-a-service product an important online storage component.
“This is a natural extension and progression of what we’ve been doing with Google Docs,” said Vijay Bangaru, Google Docs product manager.
One thing it’s not, according to Bangaru, is the G-drive, the often-rumored cloud storage service from Google that has yet to see the light of day. “On the consumer side, this isn’t a virtual drive. There isn’t a client that’s going to help you sync terabytes to the cloud,” he said.