Google Drive's new desktop program launcher plays better with PCs and mobile apps<article>
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<p>After touting the power of the web for years, Google is making its web-based products interact as seamlessly as possible with mobile apps and PC programs. The company’s latest move is a new app-launching capability for images, PDFs, and even spreadsheets and Word documents.</p><p>This is the second method to launch desktop apps from Google Drive has. In 2014, the company made it possible to right-click any file on the web app version of Google Drive, select
Open with, and open it directly in a compatible desktop program. Now, this same capability is part of the Google Drive Web viewer that lets you see a preview of a file without editing it.</p><p><span style="line-height: 1.75em;">Here’s how it works.</span></p><p class="jumpTag"><a href="/article/2970918/google-apps/google-drives-new-desktop-program-launcher-plays-better-with-pcs-and-mobile-apps.html#jump">To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here[/url]</p></section></article>
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Google Drive's new desktop program launcher plays better with PCs and mobile apps
