Dropbox also adds 500MB of storage forĮach referred user who signs up free or paid service. Get 500MB added for the first photos uploaded, up to 3GB additional (a total of 5GB).

However, Dropbox has a nifty countermove: users who take advantage of its new image upload feature Google includes 5GB of storage in free accounts, and outmuscles Dropbox there, which offers just 2GB for users who don’t pay. Dropbox handles the same Windows versions plus Windows 2003, and two popular flavors of Linux (Ubuntu and Fedora Core). Google also offers support for Windows XP, Vista, and 7, but, strangely, no Linux support yet. Google supports Mac OS X 10.6 (Snow Leopard) and 10.7 (Lion) Dropbox goes all the way back to 10.4 (Tiger) through 10.7. Both require the installation of a background app to handle keeping files up to date among computers.

Both services provide desktop synchronization of items in a single anointed folder across multiple computers using cloud storage to both copy and provide Web-accessible copies of files. Google Drive and Dropbox offer the same basic features.

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