Microsoft has lost its appeal against i4i, a Canadian company that holds the patent over some XML code that has been used by Redmond in the creation of Word 2007 and Office 2007.
Microsoft is therefore paying i4i a $290 million fine and that's not enough, the company will have to pull both Word 2007 and Office 2007 from stores by January 11, 2010.
The injunction only applies to copies of Word 2007 and Office 2007 sold in the U.S. “on or after the injunction of January 11, 2010”. Worldwide customers or U.S. consumers that purchesd them prior to that date should have no problem using their copies.
Everyone else could either get the new version of Word 2007 and Office 2007 or wait for Microsoft Word 2010 and Microsoft Office 2010 to arrive. The current beta version of those programs and the final versions will not contain the “technology covered by the injunction.”
Your docs are save you won’t have to switch to a different word editor. Microsoft will still provide its famous text editing solutions to its customers even after January 11, 2010.
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