Court ban on MS-Office !!!!! :)

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Good news for the MS-bashers :D :hap2::ohyeah:

Microsoft has lost an appeal in a patent dispute with Canadian company i4i with the US Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit ordering the software giant to stop selling Microsoft Word 2007 and other Office 2007 products by January 11.

The court also hit Microsoft with a $287 million fine.

Microsoft lost a patent infringement suit against XML specialists i4i back in May when it was found that Word's handling of .xml, .docx, and .docm files infringed upon i4i's patented XML handling algorithms, but the injunction against further Word sales was put on hold pending the results of this appeal.

In August 2009, a US judge had ordered Microsoft to stop selling Microsoft Word in its current form in the US as it infringes upon a patent owned by a Canadian company, i4i.

Judge Leonard Davis of the US District Court for the Eastern District of Texas had passed an injunction to this effect and has given Microsoft 2 months within which the software giant must comply with the order.
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Court bans sale of Microsoft Word in US: Rediff.com Business
 
thetoxicmind said:
Ouch!
But hey, $287 million is peanuts for Micro$oft.
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Just because they are the bigger company shouldnt mean that others can have free pie on them........If Microsoft starts suing other companies on patent infringement then though they should be legally wining, but there would be EU anti-trust guyz coming after Microsoft for closing down their competitors........World is not fair I tell you, :p
 
Its not that microsoft hasn't sued anyone for patent infringement earlier & its not that they haven't won in the past or for that matter, even lost. Microsoft has seen it all, but this, I suppose is new. Anyways, its a minor feature according to Microsoft and has already been changed in Office 2010. A minor change & Office 2007 will also be ready for sale again. So its not a big issue for them. As for the fine, don't think it will hurt them much.
 
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