This little feature was hotly debated as to whether any legal action would occur when Microsoft shipped it, but the download is now on the web.  details on where to download are below, but lets talk about the use of this in a business context.

While some people have said this is a nice feature why should anyone really care about it.  Well, lets this of the uses of PDFs (I know we could discuss XPS, but most people know PDF, so PDF it is). 

Anyway, PDFs are often documents sent out in "final" form, such as an invoice, contract, purchase order, etc.  Many smaller organisations want to send out these final documents, but the only option for them was to send a word document or excel spreadsheet.  While these are as universal as PDF in terms of people being able to read them, they could also change them which is bad for those documents that you don't want people to change.  Enter the Save as PDF feature - now you can send them documents which without some out of the ordinary methods, are now read-only.

To get the download, according to the Downloads Newsletter:

2007 Microsoft Office Add-in: Microsoft Save as PDF or XPS

This download allows you to export and save to the PDF and XPS formats in eight 2007 Microsoft Office programs. It also allows you to send as e-mail attachment in the PDF and XPS formats in a subset of these programs.

ttfn

David