When the emperor is proudly marching forward conquering everything that comes it’s way, can he leave behind a kingdom that is being defended securely by its rivals over the years? Definitely not. Despite rumors that kept on emerging over the last few years, Google did not launch its Google Drive until this year. And launched it has, with seamless integration into all its services making it right away the cloud storage candy for computer lovers.

But the war is yet to be won, it’s just the army that has been prepared and war has been declared. Stiff competition is being faced from its closest rival, Dropbox (not to mention Skydrive here which finds itself difficult to enter the scene in the absence of a desktop app). With the existence of an already huge reader-base, Dropbox is going to face its biggest challenge in recent times. No doubt they are going to cope with it strongly as they have proven to be supremely loyal, stable, perfectionist, professional over the years. But Google is going to come with guns blazing down as this is the territory that was pending from them over a long time, and with all of their services integrated into it, they already have an edge since so many of potential users might already been having a Google account.

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There are a lot of scenarios and facts that needs to be taken into consideration to analyze the battle between these two hugely powerful services. Every aspect has to be looked at from more than one point of view. So here you go with a face-off between the two giants:

So to decide a winner is definitely a tough choice. But for now I will be sticking to Dropbox because of it’s simplicity and no-frills professional service but keeping a close watch on both Dropbox and Google Drive to see how they both progress and come up with new features to stay in the competition.