Perhaps the most talked-about technology at Microsoft's annual Windows Hardware Engineering Conference last week was a new file format, code-named Metro, that could move the company into the market for electronic paper.
Its toughest competitor in that arena will be Adobe Systems Inc., which makes the popular Acrobat software and created the Portable Document Format standard for viewing, modifying, and printing files, regardless of the software a user runs.
Metro will be part of Microsoft's upcoming Longhorn operating system for PCs and servers, due in a public test version this summer, said chairman and chief software architect Bill Gates in a speech at the conference.
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