Adobe establishing huge lead in rolling out Internet applications

The latest one being online Adobe Acrobat plus a new Flash based word processor called Buzzword:

"Adobe unveiled an online community Monday with a word processor; file storage and sharing; and deep tie-ins to a newly Flash-enabled Acrobat 9.

The online push for Acrobat is a bold move for a brand perhaps best associated with the free and nearly ubiquitous Acrobat Reader, which opens print-ready Portable Document Format, or PDF, files. Now, PDFs will play movies.

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The free Acrobat.com beta includes the Buzzword word processor. Its ConnectNow Web conferencing and desktop sharing tool enables chatting via text, video, and voice. The hosted services invite file storage and sharing with the capability to convert up to five documents to PDF.

http://www.webware.com/8301-1_109-9956334-2.html?tag=cnetfd.mt

http://acrobat.com

While I haven't tried it yet, Buzzword must be better than the barely usable word processor in Google Docs.

P.S. I remember Adobe offering online file conversion to PDF about 8 years ago. It was a low-cost subscription based service that worked really nicely. Everything old is new again ...