Docs.com is a file sharing service from Microsoft that lets you publish and share content from Word, Excel, PowerPoint, OneNote, Sway, and Minecraft world, as well as PDF documents.
Docs.com is a file sharing service from Microsoft that lets you publish and share content from Word, Excel, PowerPoint, OneNote, Sway, and Minecraft world, as well as PDF documents.
It was originally created as part of a collaboration with Facebook in 2010, and then revamped in 2015. However, while it’s a useful site, it never really gained the traction that Microsoft had hoped for, and today, June 9, the software giant announces it’s shutting it down.
Visitors to Docs.com will now see a banner stating:
There’s the option « Learn more » and clicking this provides the explanation that:
From June 9, creating new Docs.com accounts is no longer supported. However, if you’ re a Docs.com user, you will still be able to view, edit, publish, download, and delete your existing content for a while longer.
Publishing and editing files on Docs.com will no longer be supported from August 1, and the site will be entirely discontinued on December 15. Links you’ ve shared with others will stop working after May 15,2018.
You don’ t have to worry about losing your content though, as from now until the site shutters permanently you’ ll be able to have everything automatically backed up to OneDrive, so that’s some good news at least.
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