Microsoft Taps Into Facebook’s Open Graph To Launch Docs.com

If Google Docs is about sharing documents and spreadsheets, Microsoft is now fighting back by tapping into teh biggest sharing network on the planet: Facebook. Today at Facebook's F8 developer conference , Mark Zuckerberg announced that Microsoft is tapping into Facebook to create Docs.com . The app, which was created by Microsoft's FUSE Labs, is a way for Facebook users to share and collaboratively edit Microsoft Office documents. Docs.com can be shared with your Facebook friends, and the documents can be switched back and forth between the Web and the desktop. Microsoft, of course, is also moving Office online , but I have a feeling Docs is going to take off faster just through Facebook. Microsoft partnered with Facebook to build Docs.com to show what could be done with Facebook's new Open Graph API and Social plugins. For instance, Docs.com will begin using Facebook's new auto-login feature it announced earlier today so that users won't even need to click on a Facebook Connect button to get started.