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Windows Vista Weblog

June 4th, 2006

No Adobe PDF Support for Office

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 […]

By Vincent -- 2 comments

May 1st, 2006

Glass on Word and Excel

Jensen Harris has put some screenshots online that show us exactly what Glass will look like on Windows Vista and MS Office. Check out these screenshots from Word and from Excel! I think Glass looks really great on Office 2007, just like Brandon I’m very impressed! Go to Jensen’s blog for more info:
We’re still planning […]

By Vincent -- 2 comments

March 15th, 2006

Vista and Office launching together?

More release-rumours about the launch of Windows Vista; the mad marketers from Microsoft would be planning a joint launch later this year for both Vista and Office 2007! This is what David Flynn reports in Australian IT (via hunterstrat.com):
When Microsoft launches Windows Vista on an as-yet-unnamed date towards the end of this year, it is […]

By Vincent -- 1 comment

October 29th, 2005

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 […]

By duncan -- 2 comments