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Google conducted a small survey in Times Square not too long ago simply asking people, “What is a browser?” The result was that less than 8% of those interviewed knew the answer. Most people responded with search engines such as Google and Yahoo but a few were on point naming Microsoft Internet Explorer and Mozilla Firefox.

The interviewer later asks participants, “Have you heard of Google’s browser Chrome?” with no positive results (keep in mind this video was shot around October 2008). I’m sure most of us who work online will get a laugh out of this one, I certainly did when I saw a friend of mine in the video get tripped up as if it was a loaded question. I apologize in advance to my friend for this post, however she is the one who showed me the video!

Adobe understands that collaboration is much more about people than it is about technology and has designed Acrobat.com to be easy to use yet powerful. Acrobat.com offers a suite of web-based collaboration applications focused on helping business people solve business problems. “Acrobat.com is poised to become the online destination for team collaboration,” says Rob Tarkoff, senior vice president, Adobe Business Productivity Unit. This week Adobe ends the public beta and the future of Acrobat.com begins.

Moving out of public beta means Acrobat.com is now offering premium subscription services for businesses, with a limited free service still available. Premium Basic and Plus subscriptions both offer online word processing, unlimited file downloads, and premium 1-on-1 tech support, but the Basic plan ($149/year) only allows 10 PDF files to be created per month and a 5 person web conference capacity while the Plus plan ($390/year) offers unlimited PDFs and a 20 person capacity.

Over the next year Adobe has plans to release new features at Acrobat.com including more real-time collaboration tools for documents, a new interface, shared team workspaces, mobile access, social media style updates, integration with desktop tools, and increased support for the development community.