Microsoft to close down its Docs.com document sharing site December 15

Microsoft is closing down its Docs.com site in December and encouraging influenced clients to run with LinkedIn's SlideShare as well as OneDrive for their document stockpiling needs.

Authorities posted a notice of the arranged end of administration on June 9 on its Docs.com site. In that note, Microsoft credited cover between SlideShare, which is a piece of LinkedIn, and OneDrive with Docs.com as the explanations behind the December 2017 shutting. Microsoft purchased LinkedIn a year ago. 

Microsoft is encouraging clients to relocate and additionally erase content they shared on Docs.com at the earliest opportunity. 

In 2015, Microsoft patched up its Docs.com webpage to wind up noticeably another "Web goal" where clients could distribute for open utilization their Office records, including Sways. Alongside Sways, clients can post Word, Excel, PowerPoint, and Office Mix reports as well as accumulations that will be discoverable via web crawlers to the Docs.com website. Microsoft initially presented Docs.com as a component of a coordinated effort with Facebook in 2010. Microsoft Docs was a venture to attempt to get Facebook clients to utilize Microsoft's Office Web Apps. 

Starting today, June 9, making new Docs.com records is never again bolstered. Those with existing records can even now see, alter, distribute, download, and erase their current substance. As of August 1, distributing and altering content on Docs.com will at no time in the future be upheld. 

After December 15, Docs.com will at no time in the future be accessible. After May 15, 2018, any connects to Docs.com content clients beforehand shared and that were consequently diverted to exchanged substance on OneDrive will quit working. 

Microsoft is upholding that the individuals who need to distribute their Word, PowerPoint, and PDF content utilize SlideShare. 

"For custom sharing, OneDrive offers extra instruments, consent settings and security to help share and ensure your information and substance," said Microsoft in its note. 

Microsoft distributed guidelines for moving records and substance from Docs.com to OneDrive and additionally OneDrive for Business. In a Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ) article going with these guidelines, Microsoft authorities answer other Docs.com exchange related inquiries.