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Cloud Wars

The battle for the "cloud" just heated up again with today google launching or rather renaming their google docs to google drive. Out of the gate google offers unparalleled search and file type support, does this makes the google drive a force to be reckoned with?

NO

a free account offers 5 GB of storage and then there are tiers which people can buy for example 25 GB costs $2.50/month

Microsoft's ubiquitous Skydrive (personally I find this name to be the coolest names for all the cloud storage options) currently offers 25 GB of storage for those who lock it in now or in the future will be 7 GB of storage. The tiered plans for Skydrive are also very competitive.

Box offers or recently offered 50 GB of free storage to all android users.

Thus the list goes on, and the google drive is not the revolution which was gmail with gigabytes worth of storage. Insted google is comming late to the game and offering minimal storage when compared to its competitors.

does this mean the google drive will fail, no of-course not, why? Google is a company which people more easily associate with the internet and the cloud, Microsoft and the others are new to this game and people generally don't trust their service. google as we all know will integrate the drive with all their products including android thus will make this a popular service.

But as said in the title this is a war and Microsoft not be left behind, in their iteration of windows (windows 8) will have deep integration with the skydive thus its still anyone race.
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