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Sunday, May 08, 2005

Microsoft gunning for Adobe's PDF format?

When Bill Gates showed off the new Metro document format in Longhorn at a hardware conference last week, some analysts were quick to call it a PDF killer.

Metro is designed to do things PDF already does, namely to allow for the creation of files that can be printed, viewed or archived without needing the program that created them.

With Metro, Microsoft basically wanted to create a file format that would handle two specific tasks.

First, the software giant wanted a way to save files from within any Windows program that could then be opened, viewed and shared without needing the specific program that created it.

Second, Microsoft wanted to use the same method for sending data to a printer that it uses for displaying data on screen.

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