As iCloud picks up steam, Apple has announced that its iWork.com beta service will shut down, effective July 31.
“With a new way to share iWork documents between your devices using iCloud, the iWork.com public beta service will no longer be available,” Apple said on the iWork website. “As of July 31, 2012, you will no longer be able to access your documents on the iWork.com site or view them on the web.”
Apple unveiled iWork.com in 2009 as a public beta. The sparsely featured sharing and viewing service let iWork users share documents with users on any platform, including Windows and Linux.
But Apple is now consolidating its Web services under the iCloud umbrella, making iWork.com unnecessary.
“Today, there are already over 40 million documents stored on iCloud by millions of iWork customers,” Apple said on iWork.com.
Apple is encouraging iWork.com users to sign in before July 31 and download all documents to their computers. Details are available on on Apple’s support website.
As part of its new iPad announcement on Monday, Apple announced revamped versions of iLife and iWork. The revamped iWork includes new 3D charts and animations, new builds, and transitions, Apple said. Keynote, Numbers, and Pages all now take advantage of the Retina Display that was added to the new iPad, scheduled to hit stores on March 16.
Apple also unveiled iPhoto for iPad; for more, see PCMag’s hands on.
Also check out PCMag’s review of iCloud and the slideshow below.
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