Windows Vista will have an XPS reader
Windows Vista will incorporate a reader for XPS, an XML Paper Specification, codenamed “Metro”, Microsoft’s proprietary rival to Adobe PDF (Portable Document Format).
Office 12 applications, Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Access, Publisher, Visio, OneNote, and InfoPath, will include a “Save As XPS” option, said Jeff Bell, a program manager on the Office Development Team.
“This Office feature provides a one-way export from Office client applications to an application- and platform-independent, paginated format. To view, and print, an XPS document, users will need a viewer utility, which Microsoft itself will produce for Windows Vista and an unknown number of earlier editions of the Windows OS.”
Andy Simonds, the Group Program Manager for the Windows Digital Documents Team writes, “What I think will resonate the most with customers is the ability to roll-out Windows Rights Management Services and use the same infrastructure to rights-manage Office files as well as XPS files.”
And what of the recently announced native PDF facility in Office 12? “We think choice is a good thing,” said Bell.
[Via InformationWeek]
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Check out what others are saying about this post...[...] Because of the recent lawsuit threats from Adobe, Microsoft has announced that it would remove support for saving files in PDF from Office 2007, as well as dropping its own rival format XPS from the productivity suite and Windows Vista. This news comes from betanews.com and is kinda strange because Adobe claims PDF to be an open format. It is even already integrated into OpenOffice and Mac OS X! Although MS is not really a good example for open standards, I think this is a very strange action from Adobe, who apparently sees Office 2007 as a real threat. Program manager Brian Jones has more. [...]
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