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Office 12 to Include Native PDF Support

Posted by ScuttleMonkey on from the pdf-and-the-tower-of-babel dept.

parry writes "Microsoft announced today at the MVP summit that Office 12, the next version of Microsoft Office, will have native support for the PDF document format. Support will be built into Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Access, Publisher, OneNote, Visio, and InfoPath." From the article: "Currently, on our OfficeOnline site, we are seeing over 30,000 searches per week for PDF support. That makes a pretty easy decision"

2 of 473 comments (clear)

  1. This just makes OpenOffice doomed. by ABeowulfCluster · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    I liked Openoffice because it could save a file in PDF format. Maybe I'll swtich to MS Office. Nobody can read my Openoffice resume anyways.

  2. Re:So what does this do to thier "competing" forma by drsmithy · · Score: 0, Flamebait
    I mean, didn't they do the same thing with Java, releasing their own crippled JVM included in every copy of windows?

    Uh, no, they released a JVM that spanked everyone else's in performance. It sure as hell wasn't "crippled".