Bowing To Adobe, Microsoft Strips PDF Support From 2007 Office
Microsoft will still have a patch available to users who wish to export data into PDF or its own XPS format, and is removing the bundling of XPS from Windows Vista in Europe to keep down controversy over product bundling which has gotten them into problems before. But they wanted to provide access to Adobe's de facto standard, too.
I know Microsoft is the evil giant of the computer wars, but it's brilliance is it's attempt to provide everything a user needs at his or her fingertips. I think it gets a bum rap sometimes for this. This might be one of those cases. And it's not like Adobe is a little fish in the market, either.
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