Docs.com was a
website
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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
URL
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s on to their page.
Docs.com was a part of
Microsoft Office Online
Microsoft Office, or simply Office, is the former name of a family of client software, server software, and services developed by Microsoft. It was first announced by Bill Gates on August 1, 1988, at COMDEX in Las Vegas. Initially a marketin ...
.
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
Microsoft
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FUSE Labs Microsoft's Future Social Experiences (FUSE) Labs was started by Ray Ozzie and is run bLili Cheng The group focuses on real-time and media rich experiences and is located in Bellevue, WA. It used to have offices in Cambridge, Massachusetts, and Camb ...
and
Facebook
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to provide a basic online document editing suite, similar to