I agree. I must have missed the memo awhile back because I wasn't even aware that Adobe was making a move on the office space. I will need to play with it for awhile as well.
Although the flash requirement makes this suite less desirable to me than Google Docs. I like to have access from just about every device I connect to the Internet with. Currently many phones don't support flash and I don't expect it to be a big feature in the mobile market anytime soon.
@chris below HTML 5 will take awhile to really make a dent in content. IE6 still commands around 20% of the browser market according to some stats. Developers still have to code to include the old standards so I wouldn't look for a landslide move to HTML5 anytime soon.
barringtonarch
· 5 months ago
Looks really sharp. Another great product from Adobe.
Mark Grilli
· 5 months ago
Hi Ben, Thanks for the write up from the acrobat.com team. One small correction, you mention in the last paragraph that our premium offers allow for 5 people in the document. The 5 person limit actually applies to the capacity of the ConnectNow meeting room for holding online meetings. If you are sharing documents, creating documents in Buzzword, you can have an unlimited number of participants. Thanks again, Mark
Chris
· 5 months ago
Looks like a decent offering & smart move on Adobe's part as with the coming of HTML 5 Flash is soon going to be dead (for the majority of web content).
Before they release the Air client they best figure out the memory footprint issues & leaks, I don't want to need 8GB or ram to run their suite. ;)
Henry Tombe
· 5 months ago
Create PDF does not support docx format :-(
Henry Tombe
· 5 months ago
Acrobat.com - create PDF does not support docx format :-(
Stephen
· 5 months ago
Wow... let's see what this bad boy can do.
Jack Niu
· 5 months ago
Go to google, adobe will make a new success!
Ivy
· 5 months ago
Interested to see how this will make a dent on the market, especially when MS Office still dominates a lot of the office software market.
stream_tutor_and_learn
· 5 months ago
I have used it in the Beta stages. In my opinion, it serves better for business not education. I wanted smoother transitions and markups of documents while working students. It seemed like I was always looking from what I uploaded. Plus the uploaded document was not in the right place for the Whiteboard. I like things to flow. It was cumbersome...I will give it another try to see.
andrew
· 5 months ago
Adobe needs to fire the person that keeps making their designs in tones of gray...
Brian
· 5 months ago
Buzzword is nice and has a better set of document features than Google Docs. I found it to be easier to use than Google docs as well. I've been playing with it for a year now. Neither are replacements for many people where I work since they rely heavily on other powerful Word features like Mail Merge, etc.
anonymuos
· 5 months ago
If they do a downloadable AIR app that doesn't require an Adobe ID and can save and print without going online, count me in.
Robert Wilkins
· 5 months ago
With all the tools/Apps moving to the cloud. Keep on eye on Acrobat.com. Adobes App suite. I still think that Google is in a better position with google pro apps, even though the interface is not as slick. When google adds #wave to the mix they are going to be hard to beat.
Taylor Norrish
· 5 months ago
I love Acrobat.com ConnectNow. Looking forward to checking out these new tools.
socialnerdia
· 4 months ago
Erik Larson (Sr. Director of Marketing and Product Management for Acrobat.com) on Flash Ubiquity and the Collaboration Equation:
Interestingly, acrobat.com hasn't been compared to Google Wave, while there is a lot of conceptual similarity - Collaboration platforms which are freeform.
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will be fiddling with this for a few days
I agree. I must have missed the memo awhile back because I wasn't even aware that Adobe was making a move on the office space. I will need to play with it for awhile as well.
Although the flash requirement makes this suite less desirable to me than Google Docs. I like to have access from just about every device I connect to the Internet with. Currently many phones don't support flash and I don't expect it to be a big feature in the mobile market anytime soon.
@chris below
HTML 5 will take awhile to really make a dent in content. IE6 still commands around 20% of the browser market according to some stats. Developers still have to code to include the old standards so I wouldn't look for a landslide move to HTML5 anytime soon.
Thanks for the write up from the acrobat.com team. One small correction, you mention in the last paragraph that our premium offers allow for 5 people in the document. The 5 person limit actually applies to the capacity of the ConnectNow meeting room for holding online meetings. If you are sharing documents, creating documents in Buzzword, you can have an unlimited number of participants. Thanks again,
Mark
Before they release the Air client they best figure out the memory footprint issues & leaks, I don't want to need 8GB or ram to run their suite. ;)
http://socialnerdia.com/index.php/2009/07/inter...