Adobe formally enters the online office suite market
Written by admin on June 2nd, 2008 in gadgets.
Adobe has officially launched its new web-based office application suite available in beta at adobe.com. The web tool is kind of like a combination of both Google Docs and Microsoft’s Office applications. Adobe offers up a word processor called Buzzword, a web conferencing application called ConnectNow, file sharing, an online desktop solution and of course an online PDF creator which is a scaled-down version of Adobe Acrobat. The PDF creator allows users to convert up to 5 files only. So, it pretty much serve as an appetizer to Adobe’s proprietary Acrobat software.
In brief let us walk you through the different web applications that Adobe.com is offering. Buzzword as we said is Adobe’s take on word processing on the web. Utilizing Flash/Flex, Buzzword displays all text formatting seamlessly regardless of the size of the screen you are reading the Buzzword document. On the other hand, ConnectNow is an online whiteboard that lets users conduct live meetings online and features screen sharing, chat, whiteboards, VoIP and video conferencing. Share is your typical web based file sharing application where you can upload documents on adobe.com and share them among your friends and colleagues for collaboration purposes. Finally we have My Files, a document organizer and storage center which can be located and accessed easily. Adobe.com gives out up to 5GB of maximum storage, which for most users should be more than enough storage.
Via [Read Write Web]
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