Microsoft Strips Adobe PDF from Office 2007: Here's a major dustup over the "Portable Document Format" (PDF) invented by Adobe and made freely available to all software vendors that want to use it. Microsoft got into trouble because of their penchant for "embrace and extend" -- they wanted PDF in Office 2007 alongside their own rival "XPS" work-alike product, which in Adobe's view threatened to steal marketshare from PDF.
By comparison, for nearly five years PDF has been an integral part of Mac OS X at the operating system level, making "print to PDF" available to all applications, not just a suite subset. Virtually any document on a Mac can easily be made into a PDF that's viewable on any other computer platform. For all computer users, it's simple, elegant, and easy. So why is Microsoft so intent on reinventing this in their own image? [Information Week]
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