That must have been Bruce Chizen’s reaction four months ago when he found out the crack legal team at Adobe decided to sue Microsoft for including the export to PDF function in Office 2007 Beta. As a result Microsoft has removed this function entirely from Office 2007. However, you can still do it by downloading a plug-in (thank god!).

Adobe has long touted PDF as the “standard” for web documents. I guess Adobe didn’t look up the definition of “standard” in the dictionary.

For those unfamiliar here is the definition of “standard”: Commonly used or supplied

Adobe is capitalizing on the fact that it says “or” instead of “and.” If you want your file-type to be the standard you can’t start suing people for trying to propagate its use. Imagine if Robin Nicholas and Patricia Saunders started suing everyone who used Arial type-face on their website. They’d eclipse the wealth of Bill Gates. I guess the aquisition of Macromedia went to the big A’s head. Talk about the real King of all Media.

See original article here.