Support for Docs.com is now available for Facebook's fan pages.

The collaborative venture between Microsoft and Facebook in the area of Office documents called Docs.com, received a boost last week with the announcement by Microsoft of the availability of support for Facebook fab pages. With the new addition, administrators of Facebook fan pages will be able to disseminate Office docs as a supplement to their existing Web pages, said PC Magazine.

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Scaled down Microsoft Office to be offered free Online.

The ever going battle between Microsoft and Google has reached a new phase with the software giant planning to offer a free Online version of its most prized possession, Office software. Even though the version being considered is a scaled-down of the original one, it is still a significant development in the evolution of Microsoft who until now has resisted the latest fade known as "Cloud Computing" which consits of offering entire applications via the net instead of having them hosted in users' PC.
But with the search giant Google entering the office productivity field with its free Online application called Google Docs, Microsoft recognized the potential for further erosion in its core business as more people become more comfortable with Web-based applications.
According to an article in the Wall Street Journal, Office's free Online version is expected to be available to the general public, in the first half of 2010.

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