Microsoft Should Sue Adobe?
Duncan Riley has posted a quick quote from iTWire about the recent changes in Microsoft not including the ability to save to PDF as a standard in Office 2007. Why did Adobe sue them to not let it happen, but they will allow OpenOffice and Mac to allow it?
This seems more likely:
Allowing Microsoft Office 2007 to integrate PDF document creation is quite something else. With about 90% of the office productivity suite marketshare, the inclusion of PDF files creation in Office 2007 would all but decimate Adobe’s low-end Acrobat business. To complicate matters further, Microsoft plans to include its own competing paginated document format XPS (XML Paper Specification) with Office 2007. Microsoft having the ability to freely create PDF files as well as Microsoft’s own competing XPS files is obviously too much for Adobe to bear.
Did Microsoft not agree to certain restrictions and limitations? Is Adobe just not playing nice? I’d think it must be something major for Microsoft to just back off with nothing much more said. What’s the deal?
I use CutePDF for most of my PDF creation needs now and it works fine, but I’ve also been introduced and fallen in love with SnagIt. Both of these tools allow me to easily create PDF documents through a print driver, and CutePDF does it for free!
Source: Adobe yet to explain why no PDF in Microsoft Office
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1 opinion for Microsoft Should Sue Adobe?
Eric Coleman
Jun 6, 2006 at 9:41 pm
I have to say, GOOD FOR ADOBE!!!!!
just a bit of a disclaimer, I don’t own a Windows pc anymore, and haven’t for over a year now.
Regardless, I think it’s a good move. Apple and OpenOffice have such low market share that it doesn’t matter, but microsoft is huge. If they include it, it’s locked down.
Allowing them to “install” it seperately isn’t that big of a deal, and I’m sure it won’t be for very many people.
The thing microsoft SHOULD do, and should have done along time ago is include an application likes apple’s Preview. I can open pdf, psds, almost every image format, etc in a simple little viewer. It’s smart, and means I don’t need to spend time to get the acrobat viewer.
And the XPS stuff, kinda disappointing to me. PDF has been around forever, why can’t everyone settle on a single standard and make it uniform acrost the platforms. Another example, microsoft’s new image format. What’s wrong with the RAW formats and other things available on the market already that are proven standards.
Microsoft should take the time patching the holes in the OS, or actually coming up with something useful.
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