From: "Rich Gauszka" 

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I understand the need to unbundle the product.  It's the promise by MS  =
to have it available for download in the face of litigation from Adobe =
that puzzles me.=20
  "Rich"  wrote in message news:4483416c$1{at}w3.nls.net...
     Not weird at all.  This isolates this specific feature such that if =
there is any legal action it has no effect on the main product.

  Rich

    "Rich Gauszka"  wrote in message =
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    This is weird. MS won't include the pdf save capability in the box =
but will=20
    provide it as a free download? Of course you will probably have to =
jump=20
    through WGA hoops when you do the download

    http://arstechnica.com/journals/microsoft.ars/2006/6/3/4207

    "There have been a ton of really great comments and questions today =
in=20
    relation to the news that we are going to have to pull our PDF and =
XPS=20
    publish support out of Office 2007. We will still offer the PDF and =
XPS=20
    publish functionality as a free download, but due to pressure from =
Adobe we=20
    are not able to ship it in the box."



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I understand the need
to unbundle =
the product.=20
 It's the promise by MS  to have it available for download in =
the face=20
of litigation from Adobe that puzzles me. 

  "Rich" <{at}> wrote in message news:4483416c$1{at}w3.nls.net...
     Not
weird at all.  =
This=20
  isolates this specific feature such that if there is any legal action =
it has=20
  no effect on the main product.
   
  Rich
   
  
    "Rich Gauszka" <gauszka{at}hotmail.com>">mailto:gauszka{at}hotmail.com">gauszka{at}hotmail.com>
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wrote in=20
    message news:44832685{at}w3.nls.net...This=20
    is weird. MS won't include the pdf save capability in the box but =
will=20
    provide it as a free download? Of course you will probably have =
to jump=20
    through WGA hoops when you do the downloadhttp=">http://arstechnica.com/journals/microsoft.ars/2006/6/3/4207">http=
://arstechnica.com/journals/microsoft.ars/2006/6/3/4207"There=
=20
    have been a ton of really great comments and questions today in =
relation=20
    to the news that we are going to have to pull our PDF and XPS =
publish=20
    support out of Office 2007. We will still offer the PDF and XPS =
publish=20
    functionality as a free download, but due to pressure from Adobe we =
are=20
    not able to ship it in the=20
box."

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