Microsoft Can't Sell Word in the U.S.

[lamntile]

A judge has ruled that Microsoft is no longer allowed to sell Microsoft Word in the United States because of a patent infringement.

http://www.tomshardware.com/news/Micros ... ,8436.html


OOOPPPPSS they have done it again lol

[dave.m]

XML files can be opened and edited by almost any text editor, so why are these other companies not up in court too?

http://www.fileinfo.com/help/text-editors.html

Or is it just 'hit the big one for all we can and let the smaller companies do what they want'

[lamntile]

Dont know to be honest perhaps the others have paid royalties or something , the artical mentions that MS were fined for it earlier in the year maybe they didnt cough up