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What to do now Bill??

“A United States judge on Tuesday ordered Microsoft Corporation to stop selling Microsoft Word in its current form in the US as it infringes upon a patent owned by a Canadian company, i4i.”

Say WHAT??

YES YOU ARE READING IT CORRECTLY

According to the Court Law, Microsoft has to

“.. pay the Toronto-based software developer $200 million in damages as reasonable royalty. Apart from that, Microsoft was also told to pay an additional $40 million for willful patent infringement and another $37 million-plus in interest, taking the total damages to over $287 million.”

And Stop

“selling, offering to sell, and/or importing in or into the United States any Infringing and Future Word Products that have the capability of opening a .XML, .DOCX, or .DOCM file (”an XML file”) containing custom XML;”

Read the full court order here:

‘Microsoft Corporation is hereby permanently enjoined from performing the following actions with Microsoft Word 2003, Microsoft Word 2007, and Microsoft Word products not more than colorably different from Microsoft Word 2003 or Microsoft Word 2007 (collectively “Infringing and Future Word Products”) during the term of U.S. Patent No. 5,787,449:

1. selling, offering to sell, and/or importing in or into the United States any Infringing and Future Word Products that have the capability of opening a .XML, .DOCX, or .DOCM file (”an XML file”) containing custom XML;

2. using any Infringing and Future Word Products to open an XML file containing custom XML;

3. instructing or encouraging anyone to use any Infringing and Future Word Products to open an XML file containing custom XML;

4. providing support or assistance to anyone that describes how to use any infringing and Future Word Products to open an XML file containing custom XML; and

5. testing, demonstrating, or marketing the ability of the Infringing and Future Word Products to open an XML file containing custom XML.’

That is a slap in the face for bill gates:

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Source:

http://blog.seattlepi.com/microsoft/archives/176223.asp?from=blog_last3

http://business.rediff.com/report/2009/aug/12/court-bans-microsoft-from-selling-word-in-us.htm