> PDF or Postscript. Word is not a format that you should share finalized document. Why does anyone need to edit a spec?

PDF, sure. Postscript, uh, maybe missing the target audience a bit there.

> If there is a good reason to edit, perhaps they should have made it an HTML document. Use LaTeX. Are they afraid the Office division will get them fired if they use anything other than Microsoft products?

hahahahaha. Perhaps they think it's a good wordprocessing product which can be used by many different roles in the business?

And yes, there's a lot to be said for a company using its own products where they fit.

Maybe use epub then if you don't need the vector processing facilities of pdf. I find a mostly-text book will be 20% the size as an epub.

Wouldn't XPS be the best equivalent to PDF ?

I think that's the near-equivalent but I don't think that even Microsoft is trying to dogfood that anymore.