Microsoft isn’t a saint, but they’re no Google, and the bodies the tech giant has buried stretch far and deep.

This follows Google’s current consolidation and retooling of their suite of tools with an aim at Microsoft’s looming presence over office software, especially as work from home has become a permanent thing for a lot of companies since COVID-19. This isn’t an upgrade or delete, as the files will sit in the cloud for as long as it exists. The massive corporation announced in a blog update that they’re giving everyone around 80 days to move over to the new software, which does pretty much exactly the same thing as before but different, or lose access to locally managing your files. Google Drive for Desktop returns from the grave to do… the exact things that File Stream does. While they work in similar ways, File Stream was aimed more at those in business, allowing for a virtual drive to be loaded onto a system and accessed like any other drive across a local PC or network.īackup and Sync allow you to nominate files to be connected to the cloud and then Drive will build a structure around it on the web, allowing you to transfer files between locations without having to manually update it. Backup and Sync and File Stream are being killed off for Google Drive for Desktop, the previous branding for getting access to your files without having to log into their website. Google is pulling a Google on their Drive offerings.

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