What is the difference between Google Docs and drive?

Answer 1

Microsoft Office is a robust set of products with powerful features. Google Docs is less robust and its features are less powerful.

Google documents are stored on the internet and they are accessible from any computer with an internet connection. Microsoft Office files are normally on a computer.

Microsoft Office is software that you have to pay for and install on your computer. Google Docs is free and your only requirement is to set up a Google account. If you have a Gmail account, then you have access to Google Docs and other Google products.

While Microsoft Office is more powerful, unless you require manuscript-publishing features, pivot-table functions, a rich mix of media in your presentations or database tools, Google Docs may be useful enough. Google Docs is continually improving and adding features that you would find in Microsoft Office and other similar products.

You can access the Microsoft Office site to learn more about its exact features, and you can read more about Google Docs, below.

Answer 2

Google Docs offers tools you can use to create documents, spreasheets, presentations, drawings and forms. Google Docs is free of charge.

Google Apps offers more tools and you pay for those you choose. You can read more about them, below (scroll to the bottom of the linked-to page for a complete list).

Answer 3

Not much, really. Google Drive is mostly just a small improvement over Google Docs (which was already pretty awesome). Some of the major new features they added were a downloadable application for managing your documents and new tools for sharing your documents. Also, you get a lot more storage than Google Docs had (5GB).