Adobe Acrobat.com Treads on Google, Microsoft Turf

Adobe's free online collaboration suite seeks to make inroads against Google Apps and Microsoft Office Live Workspace.

Google isn't the only large software maker looking to replace Microsoft's on-premise Office and SharePoint productivity and collaboration suites with hosted, online versions of similar applications.

Adobe Systems June 2 made its Acrobat.com suite of word processing, file-sharing and Web conferencing software available as public beta for free. The software was released in conjunction with the launch of Adobe Acrobat 9.

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