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Microsoft Adds XPS in Office 12

Microsoft will add a "Save As" function in its upcoming Microsoft Office 12 for publishing the developer's own electronic document format, XPS, another move in a competitive campaign against Adobe.

XPS (XML Paper Specification), which has been codenamed "Metro," is Microsoft's answer to Adobe's PDF: an electronic document format that can be printed without needing the actual application which created it.

Office 12 applications -- Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Access, Publisher, Visio, OneNote, and InfoPath -- will include a Save As XPS option, said Jeff Bell, a program manager on the Office development team, in a blog written late Thursday. "This Office feature provides a one-way export from Office client applications to an application- and platform-independent, paginated format," wrote Bell.

To view, and print, an XPS document, users will need a viewer utility, which Microsoft itself will produce for Windows Vista and an unknown number of earlier editions of the Windows OS. "Directly or through partners, [viewers will be produced] for a range of other platforms," added Bell.

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