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Real Estate and Microsoft Docs for Facebook

April 28 2010

Real Estate has a love/hate affair with documents. According to research performed by the WAV Group, the real estate industry consumes about 1 million trees per year in real estate transactions.

There are a pile of companies offering transaction management and storage solutions adapted to the needs of real estate agents and brokers. They are all fine products that can save hundreds of dollars a month in document storage fees while creating a better experience for the consumer in their transaction.

In a move that smacks Google Docs in the face, Microsoft entered the fray of online document sharing with MicrosoftDocsbyFusetheir announced partnership between their docs.com product and Facebook.  Here are some of the details.

  1. Microsoft is calling it Beta so you can only get on a list and wait to try it out. In the interim, you can view some sample documents that were shared.
  2. Docs.com plays nicely with all browsers (even Chrome for Mac, as I experienced) but does not play nicely with Microsoft Word for Apple.

Here are some quotes from the announcement to fill you in on the details:

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