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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. finally? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Redundant

    Good to know that Microsoft is only half a decade behind Apple Mac OS X and Sun StarOffice/OpenOffice!