Office 12

Irish Developer Network NEWS HEADLINES - Latest Technology News & Daily Expert Tech Features for programmers, software developers and ICT professionals in Ireland reports on Microsoft's discussion of their upcoming Office 12.

...demonstrated support in Office 12 that will enable customers to save their work as a PDF file by simply using the Save As command from within an Office program

Oh? Do you mean like OpenOffice.

PDF was developed by Adobe and has been available in a public specification for a long time. It has been offered by Adobe as an ISO standard. Microsoft used this standard to guide development of the PDF technology in Office 12.

Call the GF a cynic, but GUIDE development? GF cannot believe that MS might take a technology and modify it... No, no, no... GF is sure he's detecting nuances that aren't there.
[File under: Microsoft, PDF]