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

[Frank Bax]

At 05:52 PM 10/3/05, Don Parris wrote:

>On 10/3/05, David Aikema <daikema at gmail.com> 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.
> >
> > 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?
> >
> > David
> >
> > _______________________________________________
>
>It very seriously could keep MS Office in Massachusetts.  Supporting
>PDF would be the perfect way for Microsoft to snub their noses at the
>ODF standard while maintaining its presence.  Massachusetts would have
>to accept that, since it is one of the acceptable formats.  If, as
>Fred points out in his post, it's really all about ODF, then there
>would have to be a legal way for Mass to close the PDF loophole on
>Microsoft.


Is PDF an acceptable format?  Not if it's about r/w formats - unless we 
expect MSO12 to read/modify/write PDF format files.