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Microsoft released the second service pack for Office 2007, with PDF support


Welcome to 1999, Microsoft!
I guess SP3 will support document tabs ;) Wed, 29 Apr 2009 15:45:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (Liquidator) Comments RE: PDF at last http://osnews.com/thread?360929 http://osnews.com/thread?360929
"Microsoft released the second service pack for Office 2007, with PDF support


Welcome to 1999, Microsoft!
I guess SP3 will support document tabs ;) "

Office 2007 has had PDF support since day 1 of its release via an official MS download. All they've done with this SP is roll it into Office. Wed, 29 Apr 2009 16:13:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (jayson.knight) Comments RE: PDF at last http://osnews.com/thread?360935 http://osnews.com/thread?360935 adobe sued them and made them take it out Wed, 29 Apr 2009 17:43:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (google_ninja) Comments Progress http://osnews.com/thread?360938 http://osnews.com/thread?360938 It's progress... although the paranoid could still be concerned that it's version ODF1.1 not ODF1.2, or that it ODF supports proprietary extensions... or you could just roll out sun's version of the convertor
http://www.sun.com/software/star/odf_plugin/

interesting none the less Wed, 29 Apr 2009 18:01:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (Craig) Comments RE: Progress http://osnews.com/thread?360968 http://osnews.com/thread?360968 As far as I'm aware, MS hasn't done anything proprietary with ODF and/or extensions to the format... yet. Wed, 29 Apr 2009 21:43:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (darknexus) Comments They haven't added extensions yet... http://osnews.com/thread?360972 http://osnews.com/thread?360972 And they aren't likely to. They are adding ODF, in part, as ammo against the EU's growing anti-trust concerns. They can point at ODF and say, "Look! Non-Proprietary!" Adding their own extensions would sabotage that.

Also, there is a growing number of governments moving away from proprietary formats. Now, Office can once again be purchased by these governments. Wed, 29 Apr 2009 22:13:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (Drumhellar) Comments RE: They haven't added extensions yet... http://osnews.com/thread?360992 http://osnews.com/thread?360992 I certainly hope you are right, I really do, and it makes sense. I have to say I'm not ready to trust MS yet given their track record. Not messing with ODF, in addition to providing a point against the EU's antitrust case, would be a good starting point for MS to prove they are really out to integrate rather than dominate. Thu, 30 Apr 2009 01:18:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (darknexus) Comments