Adobe enters the web office fray

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Adobe enters the web office fray

by Brad Linder Oct 1st 2007

While Microsoft is taking steps to web-ify its offline office suite, Adobe is joining the crowded field of companies offering web-based office applications. Adobe is buying Virtual Ubiquity, makers of Buzzword, a new online word processor. At the same time, the company is launching a beta of a new document sharing service cleverly titled "Share." (Don't worry that's just an internal codename. Rest assured it will probably be renamed something like "Adobe Share" by the time it's officially launched).

Buzzword was already built using Adobe's Flex environment, which means it runs inside of a web browser using the same Flash player you need to watch YouTube videos. An offline version of Buzzword is expected next year.

It's a full-featured word processor, with support for tables, images, page breaks, and pretty much anything you'd want in a word processor. Well, almost. Apparently it doesn't support hyperlinks, which is a bit baffling. Adobe plans to integrate Buzzword and Share, letting you create documents, store them online and share them with other users.

Tags: buzzword, flash, share, virtual-ubiquity, web-office, word-processor

Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)

mtelesha said 11:48AM on 10-01-2007

All I ask is for support of foot notes! Well that an Zotero!!! I have to use Turrabian format for my papers and no one supports footnotes (Well I haven't check in the last 4 months.

iconolith said 4:03PM on 10-05-2007

Hopefully Adobe doesn't find a way to add insane amounts of bloat to these online apps the same way they have for all their other applications. Resource hogs.

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