Adobe PDF vs. Microsoft XPS

To help understand the issues involved, we need to understand the previous technologies and motivations for a new solution. At WinHEC (Windows Hardware Engineering Conference) in 2005, Microsoft announced that its next generation Windows Operating System (then called Metro, now Windows Vista) would feature a new document and print format that would be closely integrated with the new Vista OS. The new format is part of a wider integrated document strategy for the Windows platform, which some in the industry see as pitted squarely against Adobe, the PDF format and the Acrobat platform.