When Bill Gates showed off the new Metro document format in Longhorn at a hardware conference last week, some analysts were quick to call it a PDF killer. Indeed, there's plenty of overlap between ...

Microsoft is bracing for a legal battle in Europe with Adobe Systems, following a breakdown in negotiations last week over the use of Adobe's PDF technology in Microsoft's Office applications suite.

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When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. The concept of PDF - Portable Document Format - actually began with the Camelot Project in 1990.