Officially unveiled as part of Microsoft Chairman Bill Gates' kick-off keynote, the new Microsoft document workflow format, code-named "Metro," sounds from initial explanations like a page-description language meant to compete with Adobe's PostScript.

Microsoft has been telling partners and software vendors for some time that it was planning to include document-management functionality as a core part of Longhorn. Some partners said they believed that Microsoft officials were simply referring to the company's collaboration technology, SharePoint Services. Others said they thought Microsoft brass were making reference to the WinFS Windows file system that Microsoft decided to cut from Longhorn in order to have a better chance of meeting its 2006 ship-date target for the operating system.

But now it appears that Microsoft is equating Metro with its Longhorn document-management technology.

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