Microsoft's PDFs don't open on linux?

[phreak0ut]

2 days back, I downloaded 3 ebooks from Microsoft. I downloaded it because, they were giving the whole book for free and who needs to pay exhorbitant prices for hard-bound books. Anyway, the download was from my linux distro(Mint). After the download, to my dismay, Evince showed that it was password protected. I started looking out for PDF password crackers and even tried some common words like microsoft, microsoft.com, name of the book, the filename but nothing helped. Just out of curiosity, I try to open the file from Windows and it opens!! Is this restriction something to do with MS or Evince?

 

[Hitboxx]

Give me the link to download them.

 

[phreak0ut]

I'm not sure if it's ok to share that link with others. Will check it out and post it here in a moment.

Here you go. It's legal *www.microsoft.com/learning/vstudio/2008/default.mspx#EBOOK

 

[praka123]

i saw only flash based chapters!crazy!

 

[Hitboxx]

argh!! Sign up! I don't want to,. Please attach the book here man.

 

[NucleusKore]

Introducing Microsoft Silverlight
Introducing Microsoft ASP.NET AJAX
Introducing Microsoft LINQ

All the above open in Adobe Acrobat Reader 7.0 on OpenSuSE 10.3

 

[Hitboxx]

Nope no problem here, it opens fine.

*i206.photobucket.com/albums/bb178/ferrous_cranus/bbbScreenshot-4.png

 

[praka123]

it opens fine in evince and acrobat in Linux

 

[phreak0ut]

Strange! Thanks anyway guys

 

[NucleusKore]

Update: Above files as a single 7z archive, md5sum a98b101dbf3890d49f466ef0f50a3dc4

*rapidshare.com/files/78581093/micro.7z