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‘Google Essentials’ is a new Windows app, coming first to HP

Google Essentials is a "new app that makes it easier for you to discover and install" Google's first-party services on Windows...

This should translate to the Play Games for PC app, Google Drive for desktop, and messages.google.com PWA. Google Essentials is coming first to “all HP Windows consumer and gaming brands: Spectre, Envy, Pavilion, OMEN, Victus and HP Brand and soon to be featured on all OmniBook brands.” When Quick Share (previously Nearby Share) came to Windows last July, Google said it was partnering with OEMs to pre-install. Google will expand the Essentials app to “more laptops and desktops in the coming months.” No standalone download link is available, while the UI was not detailed today.

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