For those of you who were following this waayyy back in May, Microsoft appealed in a patent infringement case against i4i, a 30-personnel Canadian company. The cause of the case was that certain XML tags were used in both Word 2003 and 2007 without i4i’s consent. You can tell where this is going: Steve Ballmer is going to start practicing how to sign bigger checks. As for continuing sales with Word 2003 and 2007, Microsoft will no longer be allowed to put them on store shelves on January 11. The good news is: one, OpenOffice users have nothing to worry about, and two, the beta version of Office 2010 and full version of Office 2010 won’t have any worries either.
[Via Microsoft and Engadget]
