Saturday, June 03, 2006
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So Adobe doesn’t want Microsoft to add it’s “open” PDF document encoding to the next version of Office. That is kind of strange. “Open” means anybody can use it right? Also adding the ability natavily to save documents from Word, Excel or any other program in the office set of tools is a good thing for Adobe, right? I guess that Adobe is worried about something, probably money. Other “Office” programs offer this ability and Adobe doesn’t charge them for it. Strange?
Well now Microsoft has a flavor of the PDF coming out. See if Adobe likes competition now from the largest software company in the world. They say that Adobe is going to file an Anti-Trust suit in Europe. But isn’t the fact that Adobe has the only wide spread PDF style software and picks and chooses who it charges for the rights to use it’s “open” software, is that a little bit of a monopoly? I am not a lawyer, but that seems more than a little off to me.
Microsoft has learned from the Anti-Trust cases in Europe and the US. So if you want to add the ability to make the Microsoft XPS files you at this point will be able to download the plug-in. This keeps Adobe from claiming that Microsoft is trying to push them out of the market because it comes pre-installed. Which by the way the PDF software was supposed to come pre-installed with Office 2007.
I personally this politics are playing way to big a roll in this whole thing. I think Adobe is trying to make Microsoft look bad, but in this case I think Microsoft has played their cards right, at least with the information out at the current time.
Just my two cents.Labels: Technology
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