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Looks like both Adobe and Symantec has complained to EU about the new features in Vista that will be competing with their existing products. I am really quite amused.

I at least understand Symantec's case; they are offering a security service (I would consider AV also as a service as you need updates and you buy a subscription), while MS is providing an competing service in OneCare. And with Defender, they also may lose out on the anti-spyware/security software business.

But Adobe?? They have a monopoly in the document creation and printing market and their standard is the defacto standard and they go to the monopolies commission!! And MS has not integrated PDF into their OS (Yes it is available in Office, but then I would assume, you cannot create a secure PDF doc similar to what Adobe Acrobat can with Office). Also PDF is no way threatened as of now, and most probably more people will use PDF since they can create basic PDFs from Office. Yes, the number of people buying Acrobat may go down a little bit, but then if you are a serious user of PDFs, then Office is not going to be enough, you will still need Acrobat.

Microsoft has created a new standard and it is not even widely used as of now (And as of now, XPS is only supported on Vista and in other Windows platforms. I don���t see any implementations for UNIX/Mac/Linux as yet). Before XPS does become a more widely used standard, Adobe has more than enough time to be create a better format/product that will still be way ahead.