When that time comes, Google will provide organizations with a three months heads up so that they can make preparations for the transition. Backup & Sync users functionality and users will be automatically transitioned to the new Drive for Desktop when it’s ready.
The new ‘Google Drive for Desktop’ as it’s being called will take the best and most used features from both pieces of software and combine them into one, thus improving performance and adoption across the board. The goal with this change is that IT departments will no longer have to guess or work out which solution a customer is utilizing before they offer them support – they will effectively be one in the same before long. If you’re interested in previewing the Google Drive for Desktop beta and you’re a Workspace user, you can fill out this test application to try to get access to it before it fully rolls out to everyone later this year. I’ve found that File Stream is a much better solution for me as a consumer and as a business user, so I’ve opted for it over the old tool thanks to its reliability and rapid access to my files. Backup & Sync was built for consumers while File Stream was built for Workspace users. The term ‘unifying’ is being used because they truly are creating an all-in-one solution for those who prefer one over the other. That’s not to say that the ability to locally store your cloud files instead of streaming them to you will go away.
My take is that they’re allowing File Stream to gobble up Backup & Sync because it’s old news. Now, Google is ‘unifying’ the two solutions to ‘reduce confusion’. Google Drive File Stream is much more reliable and works by ‘streaming’ your files to you not unlike a Chromebook’s Files app does. It constantly failed to synchronize hundreds of files and continued to get stuck retracing its steps each time I would turn my PC on. Let’s be honest, the old Google Drive Backup & Sync option (which still exists) is not reliable.
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