Docs.com was a

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where users could discover, upload and share Office documents. Supported file types included Word documents, Excel spreadsheets, PowerPoint presentations, Mix video presentations and Sways. Users could also add PDFs and

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s on to their page. Docs.com was a part of Microsoft Office Online. On June 9, 2017, Microsoft announced it would shut down Docs.com on December 15, 2017 in favor of the acquired SlideShare with its LinkedIn purchase. It is now a redirect to Microsoft's technical documentation that resides at docs.microsoft.com.

Collaboration with Facebook

Prior to its redesign Docs.com was a collaboration between

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FUSE Labs and

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to provide a basic online document editing suite, similar to

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. It is designed to make it easy to discover, create and share Office documents with your Facebook friends. It was announced and officially launched during Facebook f8 conference on April 21, 2010 by

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and Lili Cheng. Docs.com originally offered the capability to upload or create new

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, Excel or PowerPoint documents. Users may view and edit documents online even if they did not have Microsoft Office installed on their device. However, the docs.com web editors integrate with Office so that users may edit documents on their PC or Mac and save them directly back to the cloud. Docs.com also supports upload and in-browser viewing of PDF documents. In January 2011, the site gained support for additional languages. Docs.com for Facebook was targeting individual users (e.g. students). A similar offering from

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is directed at business customers.

Technical details

The Facebook-based Docs.com used Facebook Connect for user authentication. Furthermore, the service was modeled after the Facebook Photos application and uses similar sharing settings so that users may easily invite their friends to either view or edit their documents. Docs.com integrates into the Facebook UI much like photos by providing a homepage within Facebook, a profile tab, and by posting documents to a user's Facebook Wall. The service is built using Microsoft's Office Web Apps and was compatible with the contemporary major browsers:

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and Chrome.

Support for Facebook pages

Docs.com announced support for Facebook pages on July 8, 2010. Facebook page administrators had the option to create a shared folder where they may upload, create and edit shared documents. Documents can easily be posted to a Facebook page for the page's fans to view. Lear
how the functionality works
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how it was built

2015 redesign

In 2015, Microsoft launched a new version of Docs.com. The redesigned service was created to make sharing documents less difficult over the web while also preserving source formatting. Among the supported formats are Microsoft Word, Microsoft PowerPoint, Microsoft Excel, PDF, and Office Sway among other Office-supported file-types, furthermore Docs.com offers importing features to quickly fetch documents from a user's PC and other Microsoft services such as OneDrive. Docs.com also supports commenting and the downloading of documents, but lacks the feature for users to collaborate on the same documents. As part of the relaunch of Docs.com Microsoft merged its web accumulation software, Curah! with Docs.com, and at the time of the announcement launched the

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application for Office Sway which also integrated several of Curah!'s features.

2017 case of sensitive documents

On 25 March 2017, Microsoft temporarily disabled the search feature after the security researcher Kevin Beaumount discovered that some users had inadvertently uploaded confidential documents containing sensitive information such as passwords,

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s and bank statements. The search feature was restored on 27 March. According to ''

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'', many other document and productivity services (including Microsoft's) by default upload the document as private. However, users of Docs.com were in error as to the purpose of the service, despite its tagline "Share your work with the world".

References

External links

* {{DEFAULTSORT:Docs.Com Microsoft Office Microsoft websites Internet properties established in 2010 Internet properties disestablished in 2017 Defunct American websites