With XPS as PDF killer, Microsoft opens second front on Adobe
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| Will XPS match or even overthrow PDF in the long run? Some analysts
| are skeptical, pointing to PDF?s lead and the loyalty towards Adobe
| among publishing and design customers.
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| Taking on PDF "seems too steep a path to climb," said Kathleen Maher,
| an analyst at Tiburon, Calif.-based Jon Peddie Research. "PDF is
| so ubiquitous, it works on every machine. Adobe is even trying to
| get it onto mobile phones. I just can't see a reason to use an
| operating system-specific standard like XPS."
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http://www.computerworld.com/action/article.do?command=viewArticleBasic&articleId=9017438&source=rss_news10
http://tinyurl.com/yst567
Market regulators should jump in on this one. This is another case of
monopoly power/dominant position abuse where one division assists another.
Judge Jackson wanted to break apart the company for precisely that reason.
They also do this to Flash and cross-platform media options.
Related:
Windows Vista Product Guide: Free to Download, $149 to Read
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| 'Windows Vista Product Guide' was released in two formats:
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| Microsoft Office Word 2007
| The standard .doc format isn't good enough, you need to be able to
| read a .docx file, so all those users of Office XP are just plain
| out of luck on
| this one.
|
| XPS
| What the heck is XPS? I hadn't heard of it before now, (a quick
| Google tells me XPS is Microsoft's proprietary rival to PDF)
| but apparently you need a special reader for it (which is
| kindly enough built into Vista, but nothing else).
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http://itsvista.com/2006/12/windows-vista-product-guide-free-to-download-149-to-read/
Adobe could still sue Microsoft: paper
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| Microsoft's new Vista software, due to be released early next
| year, contains a version of fixed document formats which would
| compete with Adobe's PDF format. Microsoft has pledged to make
| changes to its version.
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http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20061118/tc_nm/adobe_microsoft_dc
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