Microsoft XPS Document Writer appears as an available printer when you print a document from any application in Windows. It's not a program in which you can create documents directly.

The Microsoft XPS Document Writer saves your archived documents, Web pages and shared content as XPS files. Windows 8 includes an XPS Viewer that opens these files in a readable format.

Adobe, of course, wants PDF to remain the dominant format for exchanging document information over the web and is even considering suing Microsoft over its efforts to establish XPS as a new ...