Microsoft Office may not have the last Word
Microsoft Word will be barred from sale beginning January 11th, according to a federal court that has upheld an original ruling, plus a $290 million judgment against Microsoft. Both Microsoft Word and their Office suite would be barred from sale starting on the January 11th deadline.
Microsoft has promised a fix to the original issue, which centered around the way the XML language is implemented. Back in August, a court found Microsoft was in violation of a patent held by a small Canadian company called i4i, who holds a patent on that bit of XML code that’s used in Word.
Of course, current owners of Office and Word won’t be affected, but if this injunction does go into effect, Microsoft’s bread and butter Office suite including Word will be unavailable to retail stores. This will also affect computer makers who bundle Office and Word with their new computers.
I guess we all could start learning to use other Word processors, like Writer from open office or Google Docs.
OpenOffice Writer www.openoffice.org/
Wednesday, December 23rd, 2009
Written by: Mike
Tags: i4i, Microsoft, Office, Word, XML
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