Google’s Drive app is now out there for Home windows on Arm

Google has launched a beta model of the Google Drive desktop app that helps Home windows 11 operating on Snapdragon chips. The app gives the identical options as on computer systems with Intel and AMD chips, except for the Outlook Meet plugin, a Google employee wrote in a Drive neighborhood discussion board publish spotted by Android Authority.

You possibly can obtain the beta from Google using this direct link to the .exe file. Moreover requiring Home windows 11, Google says the installer will immediate customers to put in the also-necessary Microsoft WebView2.

Google Drive getting a local app for Home windows on Arm brings the Snapdragon-powered PCs a step nearer to native software program parity with their x86 cousins. Chrome has already supported Arm PCs since January, and different app makers have launched native variations this yr, together with Blender and the beginning menu customizer Start11. However loads of apps nonetheless depend on Microsoft’s Prism emulation, which the corporate has been working to enhance the efficiency of.