

Microsoft told to remove PDF support from Office 2007






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RE: Adobe PDF usage distinctions
By Trisped on 6/6/2006 12:10:54 PM , Rating: 2
extend and extinguish isn't likely since adobe will still provide their free reader and so many people already use the PDF format. The only thing they might do is not implement commands properly, so the viewer wouldn't display PDF files from other software properly. Since there is already a free reader available, all adobe would have to do is fix it so it actually works right, then everyone would still download it and their wouldn't be a problem.

1)acrobat reader sucks
If anything, adding a faulty PDF viewer to MSO would only help the end user. Have any of you actually looked at the acrobat reader lately? Even on reasonably fast computers it takes 3-4 times longer to load then any other desktop app. Version 7.0 isn't compatible with over half the acrobat files I come into contact with. The page viewer does not optimize for large screens well. If Adobe would put some actual money into fixing the reader, perhaps we would get a reader that is worth using. While they are at it the might as well throw in some content creation stuff too. The fact is they are just trying to squeeze every dime they can out of us, weather they have a good product or not.

2)MS didn't kill HTML
HTML was not designed to be an exceptionally robust language. As a result other languages had to be created to flush it out (like JavaScript and CSS). Microsoft didn't kill HTML, W3 (the people who created and updated HTML) declared that it would no longer be updated. Instead the created CSS to provide a more robust webpage creation tool. What Microsoft has done that is a problem is they have not properly implemented sections of CSS so those who write web pages for IE must use strange tricks to get the page to look the way they want.

