Re:Ooops, Antitrust (Score 1)

Where the hell is the PDF? Aside from the fact that this is really fucking annoying it has some really worrying implications. They're trying to boot out the PDF format, which is nice, open and ubiquitous with their own format - and they're using their monopoly on the desktop operating system market to achieve this.

I don't really understand how you can say this. Not that I don't believe it's not true - I believe MS *will* push XPS as a replacement for PDF. However, MS are entitled to publish their own documents in whatever format they like. Before this, their documents were always in Word.

Tell me, do you expect their webcasts to be given in RealAudio and QuickTime formats, too? No, of course you don't, because that's not the latest fad for people to bitch about in Slashdot comments.

I'd like to point out that I'm no MS fanboy, nor am I an MS hater. I'm just saying that MS aren't *required* to provide any of their documents in the format which *you* want them to.

Whether they're trying to boot PDF out with XPS is a different point to what you're bitching about.