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Because of the recent lawsuit threats from Adobe, Microsoft has announced that it would remove support for saving files in PDF from Office 2007, as well as dropping its own rival format XPS from the productivity suite and Windows Vista. This news comes from betanews.com and is kinda strange because Adobe claims PDF to be an open format. It is even already integrated into OpenOffice and Mac OS X! Although MS is not really a good example for open standards, I think this is a very strange action from Adobe, who apparently sees Office 2007 as a real threat. Program manager Brian Jones has more.
1969 days ago
[...] Vincent shares some information on WindowsVistaWeblog about the lack of Adobe PDF support in Office. Because of the recent lawsuit threats from Adobe, Microsoft has announced that it would remove support for saving files in PDF from Office 2007, as well as dropping its own rival format XPS from the productivity suite and Windows Vista. This news comes from betanews.com and is kinda strange because Adobe claims PDF to be an open format. It is even already integrated into OpenOffice and Mac OS X! Although MS is not really a good example for open standards, I think this is a very strange action from Adobe, who apparently sees Office 2007 as a real threat. Program manager Brian Jones has more. [...]
2147 days ago
[...] Update: The Windows Vista Weblog brings us this important update: Because of the recent lawsuit threats from Adobe, Microsoft has announced that it would remove support for saving files in PDF from Office 2007, as well as dropping its own rival format XPS from the productivity suite and Windows Vista. This news comes from betanews.com and is kinda strange because Adobe claims PDF to be an open format. It is even already integrated into OpenOffice and Mac OS X! Although MS is not really a good example for open standards, I think this is a very strange action from Adobe, who apparently sees Office 2007 as a real threat. Program manager Brian Jones has more. [...]