The new Acrobat.com is now live. Having been revealed last week, Adobe’s office and online collaboration suite gets a major refresh with a couple of products leaving the beta tag behind and also a significantly improved file management system, courtesy of a completely new back-end. For the users it means that things should go smoother and finding and organizing their files should be a lot easier.
“Acrobat.com, up until now, has been a collection of different applications running on different architectures, and file organizers. So, we retooled and created a new back-end that is the collaboration engine that will power everything we do going forward. It’s been a tremendous amount of work, but it’s work that we believe will pay off well for the future of Adobe’s online applications,” Adobe wrote.
The biggest new feature, from the users’ perspective, is the new unified file organizer. Previously, file management was left to the individual products available on Acrobat.com each with their own methods of uploading and handling the files. This wasn’t exactly ideal and the problem was made worse by the increasing number of files users had to manage.
So, Adobe got to work and came up with a brand new file management system on the back-end which translates to a single file organizer for the users. All t… (read more)