Court Orders Microsoft to Stop Selling Word
Microsoft is going to have to scramble to remove or alter the XML code that has caused the courts to order Microsoft to cease selling Word as of January 11, 2010. i4i Inc. sued Microsoft, claiming intellectual rights to specific XML code used in Word. In other news, Apple says “Hey, we invented the OS Windows is based on!”
A federal appeals court ordered Microsoft Corp. to stop selling its Word program in January and pay a Canadian software company $290 million for violating a patent, upholding the judgment of a lower court.
But people looking to buy Word or Microsoft’s Office package in the U.S. won’t have to go without the software. Microsoft said Tuesday it expects that new versions of the product, with the computer code in question removed, will be ready for sale when the injunction begins on Jan. 11.
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