Maybe I can clarify this a bit for the many who are obviously confused, based on all the grumpy and misinformed comments.
To be fair, the post manages to make the actual information almost impossible to decode, and gives the impression of being a load of corporate double-talk. For almost all users in a non-enterprise environment, which means all home users and most small business users, it's simple:
- The built-in free, not-very-good Edge PDF reader will be replaced by a built-in free, fully functional Adobe PDF reader. (If you don't know that the Adobe reader is light years ahead of the current Edge offering, you don't work with graphic design or secure document handling.) This move is a huge upgrade for all of us who absolutely must have accurate PDF rendering. I have to fight Windows and Edge to make sure that PDFs are always and only opened by Acrobat or Adobe Reader, because the Edge reader (and almost all third-party readers) isn't reliable: colors are frequently off, text in OpenType fonts can have missing characters... it's a mess.
- Adobe Acrobat Pro has many additional capabilities beyond just viewing PDFs, used for the most part only in a professional setting, and requires a subscription. If someone already has an Acrobat Pro subscription, all these additional features will now be available inside Edge, too. Far from being a corporate money-grab, this is an excellent free bonus feature for Acrobat Pro users. The article is so badly worded that it gives the impression that users will have to have an Acrobat DC subscription to view PDFs.
It's hard to express how obscure, confusing, and misleading this article is. Here are two obvious and free upgrades so badly presented they look like a money grab. Even Bing's ChatGPT-powered chat was confused.
Remember Hanlon's Razor: Never attribute to malice what is adequately explained by stupidity.
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