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Next version of Windows Office to have "Save as PDF" function removed
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PDF "save as" support was to come to Office 12 for Windows, but it looks like that feature is going to be removed.
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M$ probably has a PDF Killar© up their sleeve. Which is funny b/c when the world ends all that will be left is cockroaches and PDFs.
edit: screw them
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I agree. This is just the usual stuff from Redmond.
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Actually, now that I read the article, it looks like Adobe threatened them if they included PDF support. What the hell? How can you threaten someone for using a supposedly open spec?
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They can go fu<k themselves along with the people who send me .docs or PowerPoint documents.
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Discussed on Slashdot. PDF is an open documented standard. Anyone can support it. The reason they pulled it was over licensing issues. Microsoft wanted to change the specifications on the PDF format outside of the standard. For that, Microsoft would have to license the PDF technology from Adobe instead of using the free license.
So instead of paying Adobe for the right to modify PDF standard, they're going to drop it all together. Like they care, they're trying to push XPS anyway.
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As payback Adobe should quit using Windows keystrokes as default in their upcoming CS3 Classroom in Book series.
That'll learn 'em!
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They are not "going to drop it all together"... they said that the functionality will still be available, but will not be pre-bundled. You will just have to download the add-on from Microsoft's website now instead of having it included in the installer... looks like Adobe had qualms about it being bundled in for some reason.
Also, they are not dropping PDF to do their own thing with XPS, XPS was dropped as well.
Originally Posted by http://www.betanews.com/article/Microsoft_to_Drop_PDF_Support_in_Office/1149284222
Amid threats of a lawsuit from Adobe, Microsoft acknowledged Friday that it would remove support for saving files in PDF from Office 2007, as well as dropping its own rival format XPS from the productivity suite and Windows Vista.
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Dell is going to love it… 
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Originally Posted by Inside Man
Dell is going to love it…
Nah they are changing their XPS line to "UltraVistaCore."
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Again, their OWN 'Software geniuses" don't have the skills to actually write compliant code. they are stupid and wasted too much time getting high and they just gave up the intellectual battle of getting thr code right. But MS app's are full of such instances.
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