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Software Makers Lobby EU Against Microsoft
Carl Bialik from WSJ writes "Adobe and Symantec are lobbying EU regulators for action against Vista, the Wall Street Journal reports. Adobe is calling for Microsoft to be barred from building into the OS free software that competes with Acrobat. From the article: 'Adobe and Symantec have told EU regulators that Vista has put them squarely in Microsoft's cross hairs. Symantec is concerned that Vista will direct consumers toward a Microsoft-designed security console, or box that shows what level various security functions, such as an Internet firewall, are set on. The rival company wants to be able automatically to override the Microsoft template with its own design and features, as it has been allowed to do in the past.'"
Adobe and Microsoft are both on the top of my 'Hated Companies' list. To see them go head-to-head is an interesting thing for me. I know that many people will disagree with me, but I quite honestly hate the PDF format. While I recognize that it has some conveniences, it is much larger than it needs to be, and the fact that you can only read and edit them with expensive proprietary software (which is also bulky) doesn't help. (I know that there are other PDF programs, but *most* people only know of Acrobat)