M$ ordered to stop selling Word

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M$ ordered to stop selling Word

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That injunction was handed down yesterday, and it bars Microsoft from selling any form of Word that reads the formatting information out of a .DOCX or .DOCM file
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My guess is it will last about a week.
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My guess is they'll decide the patent is worthless...
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my guess is someone's pockets are about to get fat.
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chicken n waffles wrote:my guess is someone's pockets are about to get fat.
if they can outlast the Redmond Lawyering Corps.
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