Judge orders Microsoft to stop selling Word

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  • Namakan
    Senior Member
    • May 2007
    • 2893

    #1

    Judge orders Microsoft to stop selling Word



    Judge Leonard Davis of the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Texas issued a permanent injunction that "prohibits Microsoft from selling or importing to the United States any Microsoft Word products that have the capability of opening .XML, .DOCX or DOCM files (XML files) containing custom XML," according to a statement released by attorneys for the plantiff, i4i.
  • imported_Will
    Senior Member
    • Apr 2007
    • 1935

    #2
    Re: Judge orders Microsoft to stop selling Word

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    • AvalancheDiode
      Need more squeezing
      • Jan 2007
      • 988

      #3
      Re: Judge orders Microsoft to stop selling Word

      LOL Shut?

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      • Boreas
        Senior Member
        • Oct 2007
        • 530

        #4
        Re: Judge orders Microsoft to stop selling Word



        Anyway, thats the saddest attempt at trying to fight a large name company ive seen in awhile. I highly doubt anything will come of this other than that patent holder to do a major /facepalm coupled with some sobbing.

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        • jesus
          Member
          • May 2007
          • 2413

          #5
          Re: Judge orders Microsoft to stop selling Word

          Bill Gates will just simply buy the state of Texas and order the Judge to death row. The Judge himself will even be the one to make the sentence.

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          • AlecJ32
            Site Staff
            • Aug 2008
            • 502

            #6
            Re: Judge orders Microsoft to stop selling Word

            Why is this only targeting .docx, and none of the other new office formats? They all use the same format architecture, as far as I know.

            .docx, as well as the rest of the new formats (to my knowledge, anyways) are just zip file containers which hold xml files. These files contain the data necessary for saving documents.

            I don't see why this would only apply to Word's xml file format.

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            • signa
              CS-Nation / TGN Staff
              • Dec 2004
              • 4191

              #7
              Re: Judge orders Microsoft to stop selling Word

              this will fail, just like that company that tried to stop people from using .jpeg format a few years ago. :wee:
              "Crunch's First Officer"
              twitter: @signaprime

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              • [55RA]W|Pvt.shiftydood

                #8
                Re: Judge orders Microsoft to stop selling Word

                so the judge just wants word for free cos he cant afford it. lols

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                • Hendrix
                  I'm a Man.
                  • Nov 2007
                  • 793

                  #9
                  Re: Judge orders Microsoft to stop selling Word

                  lol, funny.

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