

Microsoft told to remove PDF support from Office 2007






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RE: Adobe PDF usage distinctions
By Bonrock on 6/3/2006 4:02:14 AM , Rating: 2
Why else would talks last 4 months and then end with the functionality available only by an Adode provided download?

Based on what I've read in numerous articles today, my understanding is that Microsoft--not Adobe--will provide the PDF functionality as a free add-on download for Office 2007. This is in lieu of including the functionality right out of the box. Nonetheless, it seems that Adobe objects even to the free download approach--this is why Microsoft is saying they expect Adobe to sue them.

By david Canada on 6/3/2006 10:13:55 AM , Rating: 2
Missed that detail....XPS might be argued to be the "extend" play. The irony though is that Microsoft has waited to this late hour to bring on PDF and is arguing for standards. It ought to be possible to more easily add standard file formats etc to Windows services and Office.. recall .zip .mp3 encoding and .pdf needed standalone programs. DVD and Divx became part of a services library.. but then Microsoft was motivated to move in the media direction due to weaknesses there and tried later to foist .wma and .wmv on the public (and gave IPOD an 80% share). I guess Adobe knows all the facts better than I do..

