

Microsoft told to remove PDF support from Office 2007






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RE: Big gamble
By mcphailvdoulton on 6/2/2006 9:31:52 PM , Rating: 2
i suspect it's partly cos adobe's scared of losing sales. correct me if i'm wrong, but ms office has the largest share of the office productivity market. since office (until now) lacks pdf creation support, adobe can sell many copies of acrobat pro.... wordperfect/openoffice/etc.'s native support doesn't hurt much, again because their market share isn't too large to be a cause for concern.

if ms office natively supports pdf creation, though, adobe probably fears a massive drop in sales. sure, ppl who want the extra features acrobat pro provides like document security, forms etc would still by acrobat pro, but most ppl would just want the 'save as pdf' function.that's probably why adobe wants ms to charge for it - perhaps that way adobe can then charge ms royalties to cushion their fall, or something along those lines.

RE: Big gamble
By UpajOs on 6/2/06, Rating: -1
RE: Big gamble

Bravo. Very well put.

