Too late, PDF was already established by the time XPS was announced. Microsoft didn't really have a good reputation back then either. It's a shame as it is a w

Too late, PDF was already established by the time XPS was announced. Microsoft didn't really have a good reputation back then either. It's a shame as it is a well defined format and it doesn't come with some of the junk that Adobe has included in PDF (like JavaScript support). Interestingly it is still in use as the default spool file format for modern printer drivers in Windows. >Not to mention that fonts are not rendered as vectors in the XPS format either; they are jagged esp. upon zooming in. I'm not sure why that is, XPS does support embedded fonts.