Archive for January 30th, 2007
In a competitive move against Microsoft 
’s emerging XPS format, Adobe on Monday released its Portable Document Format 1.7 specification to a standards group for official recognition.While PDF is already the unofficial standard for electronic documents, Adobe hopes to set the format in stone and lock out Microsoft by releasing the specification to the Association for Information and Image Management (AIIM) for publication by the International Organization for Standardization (ISO).
Much like PDF, Microsoft’s XPS, or XML Paper Specification, allows users to distribute and print documents without installing the actual application that created them. Some analysts view Microsoft’s decision to remove the “Save As PDF” feature from its new Office productivity suite and replace it with XPS as a clear indication that the software giant intends to battle Adobe in this arena.
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January 30th, 2007
The wait is over. It’s official. Retail store shelves are adorned with rows of stylized boxes that contain the various flavors of Microsoft ’s Windows Vista operating system and Office 2007 productivity suite. Vista became available at more than 39,000 retail stores in more than 70 countries on Tuesday with all the fanfare Microsoft could muster.Indeed, Redmond is calling Vista the most significant product launch in the company’s history. To mark that launch, Microsoft execs are celebrating at an event in New York City and promoting the software as a “new era in personal computing.”
Microsoft Chairman Bill Gates has boldly promised that Windows Vista and Microsoft Office 2007 will “transform the way people work and play” because the applications were designed, tested, and developed with the help of millions of consumers. Gates has said he is confident that the new products “squarely address the needs and aspirations of people around the globe.”
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January 30th, 2007
