Google Drive Launch (Semi-)Official, Leaked by French Google Blog

Google Drive is definitely debuting any second now. In fact, Google leaked the info itself by publishing the blog post announcement on its French blog. The post is gone now, but not before someone managed to get a copy.

TechCrunch has a full translation of the post detailing all the information. Of course, there's not much to be surprised about, with all the leaks and rumors so far, but it's good to hear it from the horse's mouth, as the saying goes.

As expected, there will be a Drive desktop app, for Windows and Mac. No word on Linux, but don't get your hopes up. An Android app is also launching, actually the updated Docs app, for tablets and phones. An iOS app will be debuting in the coming weeks, as soon as Apple is done reviewing it.

Users will get 5 GB of free storage from the get-go, an upgrade from the 1 GB Docs users had until now. In fact, Docs users have already been upgraded to the new storage amount.

Those who need more will be able to get 20 GB for as little as $4, though that may not be the official figure. 20 GB of extra storage is $5, €3.78 per year currently, so the post may have meant €4 since it's from the French blog.

What this means though is that pricing will, at worst, remain the same as it is now, by far the cheapest on the market, four times cheaper than SkyDrive and eight times cheaper than Dropbox. Users can buy up to 16 TB of additional storage, a much, much larger figure than what anyone else is offering.

Being that Drive is an evolution of Google Docs, some 30 types of files will be viewable online, documents, presentations, video and audio, and even Adobe Illustrator or Photoshop files.

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