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1. Comment - Microsoft to Drop PDF Support in Office

   (Jun 3, 2006 - 10:50 PM)

   Everyone seems to skip over what the root cause of the problem is - Microsoft's improper licensing of the Adobe technology and the conditions it wants to attach to the use of Adobe's software.
   
   MS would have enveloped the Adobe installation with it's own highly restrictive licence which is averse to conditions and intentions of the existing Adobe licence.
   
   What you would also end up with PDFs that were not based on the the PDF standards and export tools that generated non-compliant PDFs. End result is Office PDFs that dont follow the open PDF standard.
   
   The unwillingess of folks to read thru the FUD shows that the user community that has not recognised the similarities between this the Java episode.
   
   MS's intentions are probably two fold - split the Adobe market up and fracture the strangle-hold the PDF format has on portable document distribution.
   
   note: Brian Jone's blog is MS-sanctioned marketing... quoting his words is akin to free advertising for MS.