Google Drive soon available for ARM-based Windows 11 PCs

There are apps that are a necessity for some users when it comes to being able to use a certain platform. For many Android device users, Google Drive is one of these applications. Google Drive will soon be running on Snapdragon PCs. Android Police

Google brings Drive to ARM PCs

There is no specific date yet, but Qualcomm, the supplier of the new Snapdragon X-Series ARM processors, which are now also available in an eight-core and thus cheaper version for new Windows laptops, revealed another tidbit of information regarding the compatibility of popular apps with its chips during its press conference for IFA 2024.

According to our colleagues at Windows Central who apparently held direct discussions with Qualcomm representatives, Google Drive for Windows on ARM will be available later in the year. Although Windows 11 has a directly integrated comparable offering with OneDrive, many users on Windows prefer to use Google’s cloud storage rather than Microsoft’s counterpart. Google Drive is particularly widespread among Android users. A natively running Google Drive app would therefore also be a very useful addition to the offering on Windows 11 on ARM. Heavy users in particular prefer the desktop version to the web version because, like OneDrive, it is deeply integrated into the system and thus enables the handling of data stored locally and in the cloud very smoothly.

Basically, you can simply interact with Google Drive via Windows Explorer. Qualcomm and Microsoft are currently working hard to further increase the attractiveness of Windows 11 on ARM devices, with software compatibility still being the biggest hurdle. Although there is a powerful emulation of x86 and x64 applications on the new ARM PCs, native applications are of course always welcome due to the associated performance losses. Especially for applications with deep system integration such as Google Drive, there is often no way around native apps.