Google Drive

[DFPFilms1]

Who uses it, because in my opinion its fantastic and I wanted to bring this up after the WAN show because I think it fits the bill for what they described. And I can get to it anywhere I have internet. From presentations to spreadsheets to other documents all done with there built in programs.

[flibberdipper]

Hate it. OneDrive 4 LYFE.

[Bloodyvalley]

What are you talking about?

[TheNinjaNextDor]

I love it. I don't want to pay for word so I just use Drive and the convenience of having all your docs wherever you login/easy to share is better than the features word has.

[Whiskers]

I've found it useful. But not perfect.

The collaborative features are excellent. But the lack of general functions and features, particularly formatting options, is rather frustrating.

[Jerakl]

I had to use google drive for school. It's alright. I use it for storing random crap I don't care about too much on my personal account though.

[Night]

I dont use it. Im not a fan of cloud storage solutions. Im very tinfoil hat.. 

[DFPFilms1]

Hate it. OneDrive 4 LYFE.

Ewwww OneDrive or SkyDrive or whatever they decide to call it today.

[Giddyguy]

I'm not a fan of either their word processor or powerpoint or spreadsheet software because it is often difficult to format. However it is great for collaborative work. I am actually using it right now for a group project we have assigned at school.

As for the cloud storage, i don't like their file system very much because its very cluttered, When people share with me, it all comes up in that tab and when i try to move it to "my drive" it just makes a duplicate. Also, it has a strange way of sorting things by title; I have a folder of some lessons that are numbered 1-12 and for some reason it orders it 1, 10, 11, 12, 2 - 9.

 

I prefer using MS Office(or something like libreoffice) + Copy(its like dropbox). It gives me more functionality and is easier to manage imo.

[iceberg]

I have used it for group projects. I agree with the comments above about the lack of formatting options, but the great collaborative abilities. The way my groups have worked around the lack of formatting options is by creating the document/spreadsheet (haven't used the presentations) together, and then exporting it to MS Word/Excel to do final formatting (you could also export to a free, open source program). While this option is not perfect it is how we have worked around the crappy formatting options.

[Lyons]

Love it, use it every day for uni work. I also love being able to host 20k songs for free with Play Music Google services just keep getting better and better.

[doubley_m]

Love it, I use Docs/Spreadsheet a lot, haven't even bothered installing MS Office on my new rig.

 

I had 50GB free on my Dropbox account for 2 years from when I bought my Galaxy S3, I've now got 100GB on Drive after buying my Chromebook, so I'm just transferring things over since the Dropbox deal is coming to an end

[Adam]

Google Drive. Is. Awesome. 

[Stigs]

I use Google Drive a lot for school.  It's just easy because everyone in the school has a google account. I think it has it's place, and for school reports and stuff, it works really well.

[DLM_012]

I'm not a huge fan of it. It's useful here and there for collaboration for school projects (who doesn't have a gmail nowadays?) or quickly uploading images from my phone because of tight integration in Android but outside of that I never use it. 

 

I've been using Dropbox for several years now and see no reason to switch. The program works great on my PCs and there is integration in a lot of popular Android file managers. When I run out of free storage on Dropbox I'll use Drive for archiving my password protected picturemisc backups. The same applies to One Drive.

 

 

 

Btw if you guys aren't uploading encrypted personal data then you're doing it all wrong. All you need is a password manager to keep track of everything.