Microsoft has announced that its Adobe PDFs will now open directly in Teams instead of having to pre-select the Acrobat app.
Users will now be able to work on files together with colleagues and stakeholders and make comments and notes.
Adobe claim PDFs are the most popular file format in the world, with an estimated 400 billion PDFs viewed with Adobe products in the last year.
Adobe tools and services are packaged with Microsoft 365 products, most crucially Teams.
Tulika Gupta, Senior Product Marketing Manager, Strategic Partnerships & Integrations, enthused about the development: "These enhanced collaboration capabilities streamline a wide range of document workflows and make incorporating feedback easier and more efficient."
Previous Issues with PDFs in teams
Gupta outlined the traditional problems for users in the hybrid collaborative era and stated: "PDFs often need to be reviewed several times with team members and other stakeholders. This usually requires sending out emails to provide context (and then, the dreaded follow-up emails), keeping track of who holds the latest copy and reconciling feedback from multiple attachments.
"The numerous logins, switching between apps, and user interfaces often slow us down and take away from productivity."
Adobe has thus worked to make using PDFS a frictionless experience. Back in May at Microsoft Build, the San Jose-based multinational software firm announced new solutions in Teams to make for a better user experience. The Acrobat app in Teams already facilitates file editing and exporting, with the ability to access Teams chats, channels and Microsoft OneDrive or SharePoint.
