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The Adobe-Microsoft war hotted up this week with news that Adobe are refusing to allow Redmond to roll PDF support into Office and Windows Vista, as Rediff reports.

Although Adobe has allowed Apple to use display PDF in Mac OS X, Adobe – rightly – doesn’t want MS making money from a product it doesn’t pay for. Adobe also has its Acrobat suite of products for which Microsoft has no competitor. More …

NeoOffice.org announced the forthcoming release of NeoOffice 2.1, the Mac OS X-native version of the OpenOffice.org office suite. Scheduled for release in the first quarter of 2007, the new release will add the latest features from OpenOffice.org 2.1, open/edit/save of Microsoft Office 2007 OpenXML documents, execution of VBA macros in Excel documents, support for linear programming extensions for spreadsheets, and more. More …

I could not resist asking the Mac M$$$ Business Group why it was taking 3 months to release a converter for the Office 2007 XML format, when NeoOffice 2.1 included such a converter. Was Uncle Bill mandating a such a delay? They replied that NeoOffices could not translate everything (earlier in the week one MBU member replied that they were working very hard on this converter).