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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"

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  1. Open Document? by exnuke · · Score: 5, Funny

    So we just need to go search for Open Document?

  2. "I don't think that means what you think it means" by MightyYar · · Score: 4, Funny

    I don't know about you, but I can't wait for Microsoft Office with Pretty Darn Fast technology!

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  3. Native PDF Support by KajiCo · · Score: 5, Funny

    WOW, PDF support in Office 12, amazing how innovative microsoft is... let me just print and save this amazing article through my Native PDF print driver here on my little ole' primitive Macintosh for later use...

  4. Innovation by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    Say what you will about Microsoft, this is one company that knows how to innovate. Innovation runs in its blood. Microsoft really innovates like nobody else. Built-in PDF support is an excellent idea. No one ever thought about doing it but Microsoft did. Sometimes we are ready for their innovation as is the case with the PDF support. And sometimes Microsoft is ahead of the times as in the case of Microsoft Bob. This is one innovative company though.

  5. Re:So... Let me get this straight... by commodoresloat · · Score: 4, Funny
    Sooner or later this sort of hypocrisy is going to catch up to them and their business practices. No doubt there are legal interpretations of this that will eventually have to be answered as well.

    Yeah for sure! Remember in the late 1990s there was a company doing things like this, and the Justice Department went after them. We got a full ruling on the facts from a federal judge detailing count after count of monopolistic practices. The Justice Department really put that company in its place for breaking the law. What was that company called again? Oh, wait a minute...

  6. Re:same old by h15n · · Score: 3, Funny

    So, Miros~1 Office 12 is now ``A new theme'' + ``PDF export''.
    If it was OSS, they would call it something like Office 11.0.0.1 .

  7. Re:ahhhhh!!! by Johnso · · Score: 3, Funny
    native support for the PDF document format

    If that's true, I'll be able to export my PIN number to the PDF document format and store it on my RAID array...

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  8. Ob sig by rathehun · · Score: 2, Funny
    XML is like violence. If it doesn't solve the problem, use more.
  9. Microsoft Office by MyLongNickName · · Score: 2, Funny

    It appears you are trying to access a function that is not installed. Install the sarcasm detector now? Please insert the Microsoft Office supplemental CD now.

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