Microsoft announced today that it intends to shut down Docs.com, a service Sharing for Office documents, December 15, 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 Facebook users to create, edit, and share their documents. Microsoft Office.
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.
But this time Microsoft seems to have decided for good and will finally retire the Docs service on Friday, December 15, 2017. So those who use it will have to transfer the content που έχουν στο Docs.com σε άλλες platforms save and share files as soon as possible.
Anyone using Docs will be able to sign in from 9 June to 14 December of 2017 to back up all of the content they have on Docs.com to OneDrive. The Docs.com account will be set to read-only when the transfer is complete, and the document links will automatically be redirected to OneDrive.
Microsoft said that those who do not have enough available storage space at OneDrive should take care to empty their drive.
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 better safety to share and protect your data and content.
Let's also mention that there are many available alternatives not only for Microsoft but also for other companies like Google with Google Docs.
