Adobe issues: Standards compliance and ‘PDF killer’ from Microsoft
Could Adobe be using Microsoft’s classic “Embrace, extend and extinguish” against truly open e-book standards?
Alexandre Rafalovitch is raising the EEE question after reading Jon Noring’s post, which followed one where I zeroed in on the Flash and DRM issues. Will Adobe clean up its standards act in future versions of the Digitial Editions reader (shown) or indeed go EEE? And in its products and within the IDPF, will it truly care in the future about a solution to the DRM-related compatibility issues?
Meanwhile Ars Technica has nicely summed up what the real Microsoft is doing on the PDF front: Microsoft’s PDF-killer heads towards standards body. It will be fascinating to see how the “killer” or another Microsoft product responds to Adobe’s new e-book reader.
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