Adobe is dropping the "A" word on Microsoft, that's right folks, you could call it Anti-Trust 2.0. Supposedly, Microsoft is aiming at Adobe's PDF format by including the "Save to PDF" feature in Office 2007. Old news, but a lawsuit? Adobe may cut a deal with Microsoft, but no word yet. Microsoft's new XPS will be an option in Office and Vista, but they have so far pulled the PDF feature that may be available later as a downloadable plug-in. Microsoft has already offered to let Adobe bundle their ever-present flash player, Acrobat reader and other apps into Vista when it ships, but Adobe doesn't want a deal that would give Microsoft Adobe's brand of export to PDF functionality. If adobe was smart, they would realize that Microsoft's PDF inclusion is better for business than withholding it. Without the save to PDF feature, folks using Office 2007 will use Microsoft's new XPS, which will help is take over the market. For Adobe to withhold this functionality from Microsoft Office, they are only hurting themselves. As Mary Jo Foley asks, so Microsoft, deal, or no deal?

[Via Microsoft Watch]