Linked by Thom Holwerda on Sun 4th Jun 2006 12:59 UTC
Microsoft is making changes to the next versions of both Office and Windows as part of an effort to head off a legal challenge from Adobe Systems. Microsoft said earlier Friday that it expects an antitrust suit from Adobe after months of negotiations in which the companies failed to reach an accord. The software maker is unilaterally making changes to both Office 2007 and Windows Vista in an effort to assuage some of Adobe's concerns. More important, the move is an attempt to lower the chances that an injunction could stop Microsoft from shipping those products.
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2005-07-22
Yes, but what would Microsoft's "Export to PDF" offer over Apple's "Export to PDF" ? Surely they would be almost exactly the same? As far as I am aware, Microsoft weren't going to offer any later editing of PDF documents.
But really, it is very hard to understand what the hell is going on here. Is it:
A.
Microsoft are claiming they might be sued so that they don't have to put the feature in and can use their closed thing.
Bad Microsoft!
OR
B.
Adobe are actually wanting to stop Microsoft from doing this in order to protect their bottom line. They are plenty of other people doing the same thing already.
Bad Adobe!