Microsoft says it is at an impasse over demands from Adobe to remove PDF features from Office and the upcoming Vista operating system.
“We’ve now reached a point where what they are asking is not in the best interest of our company,” Stacy Drake, a Microsoft spokesperson, told internetnews.com today.
Adobe was not immediately available to comment.
The software giant has agreed to remove a “Save as PDF” feature from Office 2007 and make it a separate download.
The company also plans to remove Metro, a competing document file-format, from Vista, making it an OEM option, internetnews.com has learned.
But Microsoft refused to charge for the separate products, saying that selling what it considers an open-source function would put it at a competitive disadvantage.
Drake denied a Wall Street Journal report that the Redmond, Wash., software maker expects to be sued by Adobe in European courts. More likely, Adobe will file a complaint with EU regulators.
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