[SGVLUG] Home > Money Court: Microsoft Violated Patent; Can't Sell Word

[Dan Kegel]

On Tue, Dec 22, 2009 at 1:28 PM, Joel Witherspoon
<joel.witherspoon at gmail.com> wrote:
> The judge rule. MS lost. They can't sell MS Word after January 11.
>
> Open Office needs to capitalize on this.
>
> http://abcnews.go.com/Business/wireStory?id=9401711

IIRC the part of MS Word that infringes has to do with
"custom xml", which most people don't use, so it'd
be really easy for MS to disable that feature.  See
http://blogs.zdnet.com/microsoft/?p=3712