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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. So what does this do to thier "competing" format? by mobiux · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Metro? Thy production team be disbanded...

  2. Re:Open Document? by Luke+Psywalker · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Or perhaps Jenna Jamieson hot XXX

  3. Re:How to completely uninstall Office ? by kerohazel · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Yeah, a lot of MS programs do stuff like that. :/
    Well, at least you'll never have to worry about them integrating it into the operating system, a la IE. Fully functional office software bundled with an OS, at no extra cost? Not on MY watch.

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  4. Re:Now if only... by timmarhy · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    huh, what? SWF an open format? WTF since when?

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  5. Re:How to completely uninstall Office ? by Kerhop · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    MS was close to this with Win95 which had both Wordpad and the Exchange client (now known as Outlook). Wordpad is still around in WinXP and probably will be in Vista too. One wonders why they didn't have an ExcelPad or PointPad (powerpoint) included with the OS as a marketing tool to push users into the Office suite.

  6. Microsoft Feels The Heat by blueZhift · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    I guess this is some more proof that the OpenOffice.org team is doing a good job and Microsoft is feeling the heat. They aren't in any immediate danger of big losses, but long term they will be in better shape by supporting widely adopted open formats/standards. Afterall, they won the office suite war years ago, supporting things like pdf (and opendocument eventually) is not going to cost them customers. It will help them keep them along with the bundling deals they now enjoy with the major PC manufacturers. This is the same as money from the tobacco industry going into stop smoking campaigns, it really isn't going to put big tobacco out of business because people pick up smoking for nonrational reasons and then are ensnared by a powerful addiction. Most large organizations are hooked on Office already, giving them pdf export helps keep many from even thinking about dropping it cold turkey for something like OO.org.

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  7. LaTeX Support by chiok · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Just to see what happens, I'm gonna search for LaTeX support 30,001 times a week.