Microsoft drops PDF from Office
PC World | at | by Mike
Microsoft has decided to delete from the next version of Office an option to save documents in PDF after Adobe Systems threatened to take legal action.
"We offered to them that we would do this, and now we've unilaterally made the decision to do it," Microsoft spokesperson Jack Evans said on Friday. The company also will remove a feature to save documents as XML Paper Specification files in Office; XPS is Microsoft's rival file format to the PDF file format.
Adobe had threatened legal action against Microsoft in Europe over its use of Adobe's Portable Document Format, which lets users create electronic documents. It's unclear whether that action would be in the form of a complaint to the European Union or a formal antitrust suit, sources close to Microsoft said Friday. Adobe spokesperson Jodi Warner said Friday that Adobe "has made no determination" whether it will take action.