MicrosoftThe majority of these comments include wildly inaccurate statements by misguided users. This partnership simply changes the underlying library used by Edge to render PDFs in a webpage. Instead of something like pdfium, which is what many browsers have used for years, Edge would use a proprietary PDF rendering library developed by Adobe, the creator of the PDF standard. This has nothing to do with ads nor tracking. It has everything to do with how a PDF binary is loaded, parsed, and rendered onto a web page. Believe it or not, several vulnerabilities exist in public PDF rendering libraries and they are infrequently updated. This capability adds tremendous security, performance, and scalability for Edge when it comes to PDF management, not to mention the optional Acrobat-like features for document signatures, comments, and more. People, this is NOT embedding Acrobat directly into Edge. It's only using the underlying PDF parsing and rendering capabilities that are also used in products such as Acrobat. It's also free, so it's a win-win. Edge will see a nice performance boost from this when it comes to PDF management. Bravo, Microsoft.
