Microsoft Word sale prohibited as of Jan. 11, fix promised

[Jesse]

In August of this year, a court sided with a small Canadian company called i4i that holds a 1998 patent on the way the XML language is implemented, finding that Microsoft was in violation of that patent. The result: Microsoft was told to license the code in question from i4i or reprogram it, or else Microsoft Word would have to be removed from sale in the market.

http://tech.yahoo.com/blogs/null/158160

 

[plyrjohn404]

That's what they get for stealing other people's ideas.

 

[JmZ]

lol microsoft could recode that in a week if they wanted, probably less.
its not like they're short of programmers. This won't affect them really.

 

[ddlshack]

Yeah but its still quite a disruption for them I guess.