From the article:

About a month ago, some additions to the code in Chromium (the open source browser behind Chrome) suggested that the long-fabled “GDrive” may be on the verge of actually launching. A week later, user-facing proof started appearing. Then earlier today, sharp-eyed social media consultant, Johannes Wigand, spotted something interesting during a presentation at a Google-sponsored event: something that sure looks a lot like Google Drive.

And it is.

Over the past month, we’ve been able to dig up more information about Google Drive. First of all, it is very real. And it is being used internally at Google. Of course, it was also real back in 2007 and 2008 before it was eventually killed. But talking to employees back then who saw and used the service all agreed that it was pretty wonky and not ready for prime time. This new version is expected to be much better.

As you can see in Wigand’s picture (above, with important elements circled by me), Google Drive on the web will essentially be Google Docs rebranded. This shouldn’t be a big surprise since Google has been positioning Docs as a sort of Google Drive since early 2010. The difference is that Google specifically didn’t want to call it that at the time. Now they do.

And it makes a lot more sense. Few people are using Google Docs for online storage beyond the files they use in Docs. Most still probably don’t even realize they can. Something as simple as changing the name to Google Drive should help with that. There will also be a new “My Google Drive” area for various folders in Google Drive. There will be other Drive-specific tools as well.

But here’s the real key: there will also be native syncing software that you install on your various computers and mobile devices. Yes, like Dropbox.

techcrunch.com/2011/09/24/google-drive-is-coming/

Here are some comments I thought were interesting. Some positive...

EXCITED. I like the idea of being able to use just one account to get my email, social networking, docs, pictures, youtube, and now other files as well. Sounds very nice.

Nice... hope the client is speedy/bug-free and I may change from Dropbox =).

 

(referring to dropbox) Essentially you're only paying for storage, and frankly, $9.95 for 50gb is way too much ... Anyway, I'm looking forward to watching this one play out. Competition can be healthy. =)

 and some less positive...

Yay, now Google can not only read my emails, but all my papers too!

I am excited for the possibility of more free storage space than Dropbox, but I would be very wary if Google is allowed to mine all of this information for data.

If Google wants to be successful now, it needs software to allow files to sync automatically and have capability to backup folders automatically.

I'm a Google Docs diehard and use it for everything, but when my schools Internet went down cloud confidence was lost a bit. Also it's hard to organize things via the web app. If it goes native I will be buying more storage