Can Adobe out-code Microsoft, Google?

With the arrival of its online office product, Adobe Systems is putting Microsoft and Google on notice that viable alternatives do exist to the industry’s reigning hegemons. What sort of impact the new products will have obviously won’t be known for months. But the release is intriguing a lot of people who have weighed into the blogosphere conversation today.

This nifty-looking application suite allows users to create word processing documents, share files, convert PDFs, and hold Web conferences. Adobe also took the wraps off Acrobat 9, which includes support for Flash. You can test out the office suite with the beta of Acrobat.com that became available today.

View Full Article: CNET News

Adobe launches its latest test of Buzzword online WP

The viability of AIR as an application platform is only becoming more clear with today’s revamp of Buzzword, Adobe’s online word processor, now part of Acrobat.com. BetaNews spent some more time with Buzzword this morning and afternoon.

Adobe Web Services test run: ConnectNow and Create PDF

Part of Adobe’s beta of Acrobat.com, ConnectNow is a Web Conferencing tool, and Create PDF gives you a way to build PDF files from anyplace, whether or not you have access to Acrobat software.

Adobe extends Acrobat branding to Web services

For years, Microsoft hasn’t really had serious competition in the general-purpose applications space. But if Adobe succeeds in transplanting its Acrobat brand into word processing and online services, Microsoft could have a fight on its hands.