Document Management Roll-up: Microsoft, Facebook Release Docs.com, SharePoint Gets Doc Capture

By David Roe (@druadh20) Jul 13, 2010

This week, Microsoft has been receiving a lot of attention with the general release of Docs.com for Facebook, a new capture tool for SharePoint from Kofax and a better Office 2010 mobile experience from Aia. Xerox encourages ‘green’ printing with free software.

Facebook Docs on General Release

You may remember in April that Microsoft (news, site) and Facebook (news, site) announced the beta of a new service called Docs.com, that enables users to access and collaborate on Microsoft documents in Facebook.

As of last week that service has gone on general release with all the features as well as a couple of new ones.

In particular, Docs.com is offering support for Facebook fan pages as the result of massive user demand, the blog announcing the release says. As a result users will now be able to:

Author document as your Facebook Page
Post a document to Facebook Pages
Add the Docs profile tab
Share and co-manage all docs created by other page administrators

In effect, what this does is to allow administrators of Facebook fan pages to use and place Office documents as supplements to their content.

The new release from Microsoft’s FUSE Labs enables users to create and share Office documents across Facebook and comes with editing and collaboration capabilities as well as rigorous privacy settings.

Users will be able to upload or start docs online, have someone else edit it, incorporate feedback and then share it with the world. Docs can be viewed and edited directly within a web browser or through the Microsoft Office software on PC or Mac. If you want to find out more check out this video.