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Office 12 to Include Native PDF Support
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"
DirectX. Yes, it has problems rendering at very high precision required for engineering applications, however for gaming, there is nothing like it - on any platform. The combination of excellent graphics, excellent hardware support, excellent sound support - definitely the best game development libraries available.
Linux has SDL - but it came after DirectX and is nowhere near as good. OpenGL is good too, but the audio support is not stellar to say the least. Also, OpenGL is targetted at engineering apps and is not as good for games.
Intersting, please note that the link he provided mentions only the display capabilities. I've seen OS-X's PDF display capabilities but never the creation capabilities hence my unfarmilarity with it.
A nice feature, to be sure, but it still begs the question as to who cares? So OS-X has the feature, wonderful. Why is it a bad thing that Office is getting it as well? It would make just as much sense to rip on the open source PDFCreator program, which adds a PDF printer to Windows.
My point really isn't about the Mac's capabilities, it is to point out the stupidity of Mac users that feel the need to crow about Mac features in non-Mac related articles and act like it's a bad then when another OS gets a feature MacOS has. They act as though if Apple implements something first (even if it's not something they invented) then nobody else is allowed to do that.