Adobe seems to have won the battle over the inclusion of PDF support in Microsoft Office 2007 - in other words, there won't be any. As a user and university student, this is a disappointing development. I was hoping Microsoft and Adobe would make everyone's life easier by including PDF conversion in Word 2007. Guess we'll have to make do with online resources for now.
I do understand where Adobe is coming from. It would be business suicide to allow Microsoft to basically hijack their best-selling low-end product. I know Open Office has included PDF functionality for a while, but how many people use Open Office in the workplace anyway? It'd be an understatement to say that Microsoft is a far bigger competitor, and Adobe would definitely feel the pinch if it was to allow them to get away with this. They have every right to protect their business interests, especially from a company that is set to release its own open document format. The result of all this is that Microsoft will release the PDF converter as a downloadable plug-in, most probably at an extra cost. Consumers lose again.
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