EPeriodicals: Microsoft takes aim at PDF
eWeek | at | by Mike
Adobe's PDF document-distribution format may seem entrenched among computing consumers, but that isn't stopping Microsoft from trying to throw its weight behind a competing publishing venture. At its Tablet PC launch here on Thursday, Microsoft provided its first public glimpse of its e-publishing technology, code-named ePeriodicals. At a mini-trade show at the launch, Microsoft demonstrated how ePeriodicals could be used to capture, display and deliver to subscribers XML-based digital versions of magazines such as Forbes and The New Yorker. The Financial Times and Slate are also working with Microsoft on ePeriodicals, Microsoft officials said.