From PC World: Google is on a tear adding new features to Google Drive. The company recently rolled out an improvement to how Gmail handles Drive attachments, as well as some nice feature updates to Drive for Android and iOS.
Two years after Google added the ability to share Drive links via Gmail with just one click, the company is now adding the ability to send actual attachments using the same mechanism. Google's productivity suite also gained the ability to handle Open document formats—ODT, ODS, and ODP—which should come in handy for Linux lovers and users in countries that have adopted Open formats over their proprietary counterparts, like Microsoft's DOCX.
Drive for Android, meanwhile, is getting Google Now integration, which lets you use an "Ok Google" voice command to search for Drive documents. And users of iPhone and iPads are getting the ability to upload content from other apps on their device.
Earlier in December, Google added one-click editing capabilities to Gmail for Microsoft Office attachments. Before that, Google came up with a Chrome extension that lets you launch desktop apps from Google Drive. Now, we're getting a few more functionality boosts to Drive as Google continues its Drive bonanza to help ward off defections to Microsoft's OneDrive and the Microsoft Office web and desktop ecosystem.
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