Thursday, August 13, 2009

Microsoft banned from selling Office in the US by Texas Judge

Here's something you don't see everyday.. Texas judge bans Microsoft from selling XML based products like Office 2007 in the US:

http://news.prnewswire.com/DisplayReleaseContent.aspx?ACCT=104&STORY=/www/story/08-12-2009/0005076218&EDATE=

http://files.newswire.ca/816/CourtDocuments.pdf

This creates a pretty nasty precedent... remember, OpenOffice does the same thing too...

The patent:

http://www.patentstorm.us/patents/5787449/fulltext.html

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