[CS-FSLUG] NI: Next version of Microsoft Office to support PDF?

[Fred A. Miller]

On Monday 03 October 2005 1:06 pm, David Aikema wrote:
> This weekend on Slashdot.org, there was a posting of an MSDN blog -
> http://blogs.msdn.com/brian_jones/archive/2005/10/01/476067.aspx -
> which said that PDF support would be introduced in the next Office
> release.

True.......from what I read of Office 12 "specs" as disbursed by none of that 
ol' Slick Willie himself...............not not Bill Clinton. ;)

> I'm suspecting that this is related to the earlier Massachusetts
> decision, and of course this is a capability that OpenOffice has
> already possessed for quite some time.  The question is, do you think
> that supporting PDF will be a sufficient move for MS Office to remain
> in that state?

No, because the real issue is opendoc. 

Fred

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