Adobe launched an online application that competes with Microsoft Office

Adobe has just introduced a number of online services to compete with Google and Microsoft, including spreadsheet applications, word processing, demos, web conferencing applications, and more.

The Acrobat.com service page has just concluded its beta (beta) phase to switch to the official version with free subscription web services. Adobe hopes these services will bring new experiences to the business.

New Acrobat.com services include: Acrobat Tables spreadsheet, Buzzword text processing, meeting application Adobe Connect Now, Presentations presentation application (similar to Microsoft Office PowerPoint).

With the launch of a range of new applications, Adobe aims to compete with many other names such as Microsoft (Office software), IBM (Lotus), Google (online word processing applications, spreadsheets . ). Experts say that, based on the availability of Adobe, the company can compete with Microsoft and Google in online services.

Adobe is currently offering 2 subscription packages for Acrobat.com; Premium Basic and Premium Plus pages. Both services are registered monthly or yearly at a base price of $ 14.99 / month, or $ 149 / year (for Basic packages). If registered by year, users will be given the ability to convert files to PDF (10 files / month); and can organize web conferences with a maximum of 5 participants.

Meanwhile, the price of Plus is more expensive - 39USD / month, or 399USD / year, with the ability to convert unlimited PDF files, and web meetings with up to 20 attendees. Adobe also provides phone and web support for both levels of registration. Currently, Adobe is promoting for both services (until July 16), whereby the price of each service will be reduced by $ 15 / month, or $ 55 / year.

In addition to the above two services, Adobe also offers a free version of Acrobat.com. According to Erik Larson, Adobe's director of marketing and product management, Acrobat.com not only competes with software packages like Microsoft Office in the long run, but also helps users work on the same. a document in a new way.

Currently, services on Acrobat.com allow many people to work together and edit documents simultaneously. The team members will immediately see who is editing the document, and edit something. This is considered a collaborative work feature that is quite common in today's online applications.