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Created : 12 August 2009
 

Microsoft ordered to stop selling Word



https://arstechnica.com/microsoft/news/2009/08/court-gives-microsoft-60-days-to-stop-shipping-word.ars
Another link.

Chances are Microsoft will win their appeal against this ruling, but for now, it's very amusing.

 

Comments
Wednesday, 12 August 2009, 14:52
Jayenkai
 		FFS.. Because of the XML!!?
Wednesday, 12 August 2009, 19:25
Evil Roy Ferguso
 		To be fair, I think this company is just patent-trolling. The patent's text is vague enough to basically apply to any markup with separation between presentation and content. MS losing this case sets a precedent that could cause major headaches for things like CSS as well.
Thursday, 13 August 2009, 04:05
Mog
 		Microsoft won't lose, Balmer will crush all with his legalese penis and then proceed to devour their first borns.

Because microsoft has....

DEVELOPERS!


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Saturday, 15 August 2009, 18:57
mindstorm8191
 		Either that or they will release a patch for Word that includes their own markup language, which happens to be almost like XML but have a thousand more rules to using it, to the point where the only real use would be by using word.

Seems that's how Microsoft has done things before...
Sunday, 16 August 2009, 01:30
Cower
 		Microsoft can't really afford to do that, considering the existing install base and support for their current XML format. The judge wants them to not support the formats whatsoever, or to treat those formats as plaintext (e.g., you open them and you see the XML itself rather than the formatted document). So, what's going to happen is this: Microsoft will appeal the ruling (they've probably already done this); the patent will be rendered invalid because it's overly broad and really unfair to everyone, not just Microsoft; I4i will go out of business due to lawsuits, probaby; Word will be sold as usual.