Microsoft Banned From Selling Word
By Malcolm Owen | No CommentsLeave a Comment
Posted: Thursday, August 13, 2009 at 10:56 am

Yes, you’ve read that right. Microsoft have been ordered by a court to stop selling versions of MS Word because of patent infringement.

Within the next 60 days, Microsoft must either amend Word 2003 and 2007 in such a way to stop the infringement, or cease sales altogether.
The patent in question is owned by i4i, and they say Microsoft is using XML in a way that they want money for, but it’s believed that Microsoft will get around this easily, especially since they believe the latest version of Word won’t touch the patent at all.

Strangely, shares in Microsoft went up 2%…

[Via The Register and BBC]