Microsoft Abandons PDF-Saving Feature
From the Associated Press
Microsoft Corp. said it had canceled plans to include an automatic way to save documents in the popular PDF format in the next version of its Office software, amid a dispute with Adobe Systems Inc.
Instead, users who purchase Office 2007, due out in January, will have to download separate, free software to save Word, Excel and other Office documents as PDFs.
The spat with Adobe, which developed the popular PDF, or Portable Document Format, comes as Microsoft is preparing to launch its own competing format for saving documents that cannot be easily modified.
