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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"

3 of 473 comments (clear)

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

    So we just need to go search for Open Document?

  2. 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...

  3. 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.