Google has no plans to develop dedicated Gmail and Drive apps for Windows 8 or Windows Phone 8. The director of Google Apps, Clay Bavor, told V3 that due to lack of interest from its clients on the systems, it is holding back on any work at present.
"We have no plans to build out Windows apps. We are very careful about where we invest and will go where the users are but they are not on Windows Phone or Windows 8," he said.
"If that changes, we would invest there, of course."
Instead Bavor said that Google was committed to continually improving and updating its iOS and Android products.
Since Google published its search app for Windows 8 Modern UI in the Windows Store, users had been waiting for the official Gmail and Google Drive apps. Google must have disappointed it's users by taking this decision.