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[Burger]

God Damn It.

I love PDF's. I love how anybody who has a clue can open one of my documents, and have it look how I wanted it. I love how it can embed fonts, I love how it can embed super complex vector graphics, I love PDF's.

Why do you have to do this Microsoft ? Why... Adobe has come up with an AMAZING format, platform independant, free viewing software for Windows, Linux and Mac. Hell, Apple even make PDF's part of their operating system.

I don't see how you can make the PDF format better than it is already, apart from being able to embed Flash, which is in the works anyway.

If this shit ever takes off it's just another stupid format I'll have to deal with all day. What if 'Metro's" dont import into Illustrator ? What if photoshop cannot render them correctly ?

To quote slashdot:

'We will offer products based on this next generation RIP technology and make them available under license to printer manufacturers and software integrators worldwide.' Yes, I can see it now - entire industries undoing their time-tested, battle hardend PDF-based workflows with free and open files all for the chance to use patented, pay-for-use Microsoft proprietary workflows, software, and files. Good luck with that, guys."

The next version of Windows will include a new document format, code-named "Metro," to print and share documents, Microsoft said Monday. Metro appears to rival Adobe Systems's PostScript and PDF (portable document format) technologies.

Metro was demonstrated during Microsoft Chairman and Chief Software Architect Bill Gates' keynote at the start of the Windows Hardware Engineering Conference (WinHEC) on Monday in Seattle.

The format, based on XML (extensible markup language), will be licensed royalty free and users will be able to open Metro files without a special client. In the demonstration, a Metro file was opened and printed from Internet Explorer, Microsoft's Web browser.

Printers and printer drivers can include support for Metro and deliver better and faster printing results than with today's printing technology, Microsoft said. On stage, a Xerox Corp. printer with Metro built in was used to print a sample slide.

The Metro technology is likely to go head-to-head with Adobe's PostScript technology. "It is a potential Adobe killer," said Richard Doherty, research director with The Envisioneering Group in Seaford, New York. "But this is just the first warning shot. Adobe could put something that is even more compelling [on top of] Longhorn."

http://www.computerworld.com.au/index.php/id;1815904564;fp;16;fpid;0

 

[Freestyler]

I don't see Adobe's supremacy being challenged in the slightest. Knowing Microsoft, they'll launch Metro half-finish and it'll be rushed, buggy and people just won't switch to it.

And now that Adobe has bought Macromedia, I imagine they'll have plenty of interesting things to say about Flash-embedding in Metro.

 

[Bregor]

This isn't Microsoft's first attempt to supplant the pdf format. They have failed before, they may well fail again.

 

[Ned Flanders]

Geez Microsoft!! What'll they try next? A videogame console?? Pfft..

 

[DarienA]

MS: Let's see what market don't we dominate or haven't we tried to launch a proprietary format in....

 

[sol5377]

MS: Let's see what market don't we dominate or haven't we tried to launch a proprietary format in....

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[OmniGamer]

MS: Let's see what market don't we dominate or haven't we tried to launch a proprietary format in....

Cue the Microsoft fast-food restaurant chain

"Yeah um hi, i'll have a ctrl+alt+del, and a small Blue screen of death"

 

[tedtropy]

Cue the Microsoft fast-food restaurant chain

"Yeah um hi, i'll have a ctrl+alt+del, and a small Blue screen of death"

LOLUrRite. Macs 4 ever! Whooo!

 

[FortNinety]

I love hearing about Microsoft wasting time to improve something which doesn't need it instead of being totally focused on the new OS.

 

[AB 101]

Microsoft likes proprietary.

I love hearing about Microsoft wasting time to improve something which doesn't need it instead of being totally focused on the new OS.

Touche.


I wonder how many millions MS has sunk into R&D regarding the new glowing buttons.