Microsoft announced today that it plans to shut down Docs.com for a Sharing Service for Office documents at 15 December 2017.
Docs.com began as a partnership between Microsoft and Facebook in April 2010. It was built using Microsoft's Office Web Apps platform, and allowed users of Facebook to create, edit and share Microsoft Office documents.
Microsoft suspended Docs.com again from 2015, and started it back by supporting more features, such as OneDrive support for document retrieval and basic annotation support.
This time, however, Microsoft seems to have decided it well and will eventually withdraw Docs on 15 December 2017. So those who use it should transfer their content to Docs.com to other file storage and file sharing platforms as soon as possible.
Those who use Docs will be able to log in from today June 9th until December 14th, 2017 to back up all their content on Docs.com to OneDrive. THE accountDocs.com will be set to read-only when the transfer is complete, and the document links will automatically redirect to OneDrive.
Microsoft said that users who do not have enough storage space available on OneDrine should make sure to empty the drive their.
The main reason for shutting down Docs is that Microsoft believes SlideShare is the best service for publishing Office documents.
In addition, Microsoft believes that OneDrive is the right service for distributing documents that are stored.
For custom sharing, OneDrive offers additional tools, permission settings, and security to share and protect them data and your content.
We should also mention that there are many alternative solutions available, not only those from Microsoft, but also from other companies such as Google with Google Docs.
