<p>8 Things You Didn't Know You Could Do With Your iPad And The CloudBox on Monday introduced a cloud-based real-time document collaboration service called Box Notes, putting further pressure on Microsoft's Office empire.</p><p>Like Adobe Buzzword, Google Docs Zoho Docs and others, Box Notes aspires to provide a way to create and share documents in a Web browser, with Box's underlying enterprise storage service as the foundation. The service strives for a middle ground between the bells-and-whistles approach of Microsoft Office and a no-frills online word processor. More Software InsightsWebcasts More >>White Papers More >>Reports More >></p><p>"Our belief is that existing word processors have overshot the market, building ever more complex features, many of them still related to printing documents," said Jonathan Berger, product manager at Box in a blog post. "At the opposite end of the spectrum, social communication and messaging applications have enabled new forms of continuous productivity not previously seen in the workplace."</p><p>[ Is this Box competitor guilty of a serious security infraction? Read Dropbox Responds To Security Flap. ]</p><p><a href="http://www.informationweek.com/software/productivity-applications/box-becomes-document-creation-platform/240161368">Keep reading...</a></p><p>Read also:</p><p><a href="http://gigaom.com/2013/09/16/box-wont-say-it-out-loud-but-its-taking-on-google-and-microsoft-with-box-notes/">Box won't say it out loud, but it's now taking on Google and Microsoft with ...</a> (GigaOM)</p><p><a href="http://www.infoworld.com/d/cloud-computing/box-looks-beyond-cloud-storage-note-taking-app-226873">Box looks beyond cloud storage with note-taking app</a> (InfoWorld)</p><p>Explore: <a href="http://news.google.com/news/more?ncl=d_SGADAWt5G6cbMw5Z8b7MyGlkWEM&ned=us">64 additional articles.</a></p>