We met up with folks from Adobe yesterday - they organised a spot of Go-Karting. The Adobe guys were pretty confident, eventually finishing the race in first place. Their confidence spilled over into the bar later when they dismissed the possibility of Microsoft Office 2007's native PDF support posing any significant challenge to Adobe Acrobat's dominance of the PDF generation market.

Adobe reckons that the PDF generating ability of future releases of the Office suite will be so basic as to perhaps sound the death knell for the likes of Jaws PDF Creator but not sophisticated enough to lure power users away from Acrobat.

On the record, and for the record, we managed a creditable podium finish ...