Everyone who knows me; knows of my love for Microsoft, so of course there will be the talk of heavy bias in whatever I am about to say. Yes I am biased, but I am biased towards, not biased against something and I am not prejudicial. Adobe has monolpoly over the portable document format they practically invented it. So much for PDF!
What we have here is a monopoly playing around with the law; twisting it to eliminate their competition against a seemingly notorious monopoly who is; but a new entrant to their playground. XPS is an all together different format, I would still need Adobe Reader to open the hundreds of pdf files I already have, and hundreds other I go through in a week. So where is the threat?
Take the following case for example, IE7 provides Live Search as the default engine in the search bar, but someone like me who has personal discontent with Google still uses Google as his primary search engine simply because we all are creatures of habit. And unless Live Search or any other engine comes up with something mindbogglingly cool or unless Google screws it up really badly it can hardly be toppled as the #1 search provider.
So what do you want? Some might say! All I want is Adobe and other players who are monopolies in one segment or the other to play fair! That's all I want.
So much for the first post under my new tag "Justice For All" in true Batman fashion, which I intended for another post but seems this post snatched the 1st place.