Adobe could still sue Microsoft – CEO in paper
November 20th, 2006 | by xxdesmus |Adobe could still sue Microsoft – CEO in paper
Adobe may sue Microsoft if it is not satisfied with the European Union’s steps to ensure Microsoft’s new operating system does not shut out rivals, Adobe’s chief executive said.
Bruce Chizen told Germany’s Euro am Sonntag newspaper there were two options: to sue Microsoft directly or to work with the authorities and provide them with the necessary information.
“We’re doing the latter. Then we’ll see,” Chizen said in an interview released on Saturday ahead of publication on Sunday.
Microsoft’s new Vista software, due to be released early next year, contains a version of fixed document formats which would compete with Adobe’s PDF format. Microsoft has pledged to make changes to its version.
Chizen added that Adobe, known for its popular Acrobat document reader, was considering offering some of its more sophisticated software for photo and video editing over the Internet, financed by advertising.
“It would be a shame if we could not fit this into our business model,” Chizen said.
What a joke. They seem to enjoy these absolutely ridiculous bitching and whining sessions where they say they “might” sue (but won’t because they have no case) so instead they go whine to the EU so that the EU can bitch and whine at Microsoft instead. Adobe needs to stop using the EU as their own whiny little puppet and either sue Microsoft or drop this pathetic bantering.
Way to try and sue the competition just because they create a open standard that (god forbid) might compete with your god-awful closed standard. This sounds exactly like Adobe getting scared because they haven’t done a single useful or innovate thing with the PDF standard in years…and now they might actually have some competition so the obvious solution would be to make a better product sue.
As for why Microsoft won’t integrate PDF support into the OS (or any other Microsoft application), well Microsoft tried to strike a deal with Adobe, including pre-installing Adobe Reader with new copies of Windows, but Adobe didn’t go for it…What the hell else do they want? Having your crap-tastic software pre-install with every copy of Windows is about as good as it gets.
What an absolute joke.