Microsoft Word: Banned in the USA

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In an interesting turn of events, Seattle PI is reporting that a Texas judge has ordered Microsoft to cease all sales of its famed word processor in the US within 60 days. No, seriously. The injunction came as the result of a patent dispute between Canadian software company i4i and Microsoft regarding the processes with which Word handles XML files. This isn’t the first victory for i4i over the Washingtonian beast either — back in May a court awarded the company $200 million in damages as it found Microsoft had knowingly infringed on the same patent. That judgment is still being appealed and of course Microsoft isn’t going to stop selling Word any time soon as a result of this new injunction. In the end, Redmond will appeal related rulings as long as it can and then it’ll cut a check and be done with the matter. Oh yes, it will be a large check.

[Via Mashable]

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  • Shaun

    That’s because Open Office is free

  • srsly

    Seriously using $ instead of S is fucking old and played out like Job’s cancer.

  • http://www.hernandezlawAZ.com TechnoBeaver

    @ BGR.

    Headline is inflamatory and inaccurate.

    @ Jeremiah

    Are you an imbecile? “Sam” is not representatve of Mac users, he’s representative of people commenting in a hurry in America. Study after study reveals that the median IQ, personal income, and education of Mac users is markedly superio to PC users. I think the reasons for that are fairly obvious. Those numbers will start to even out a bit as Apple lowers prices.

    CH.

    Sent from my BlackBerry Bold.

  • http://www.hernandezlawAZ.com TechnoBeaver

    Please pardon my typos above.

    CH.

  • Jeremiah

    @TechnoBeaver: Calm down I was merely making a joke. It’s quite pathetic that any mention of Microsoft will automatically ensue in a fanboy evangelizing that Apple is superior to Microsoft, even when it makes no sense to include Apple into the discussion. Thus, I had to take a stab at the illiterate and bumbling idiot that had to be that fanboy.

  • Tyrone D.

    Apple wins? Really? Bunch of high functioning retards are at it again.

    Microsoft’s Mac Business Unit is holding a press conference today to announce something… it could be Office for the iPhone since Microsoft and Nokia just announced there partnership. Let’s see what happens…

    http://www.techflash.com/Microsofts_Mac_unit_schedules_mysterious_news_conference_52464882.html

    Apple fanboys/girls, just accept the truth – Apple will never surpass Microsoft in anything. Not happening.

  • icompute

    Wow I am glad I still use electric pencil. Think I might update to Wordstar.

  • Replier

    the Judicial System types just about everything in WordPerfect. It’s very frustrating.

  • DigDug

    Judge should have done something much greater for society such as banning Vista.

  • F1

    An Open Letter:

    Microsoft is the sole example, of the ultimate level of greed,in the history of mankind!
    An absolute disgrace of a company, created by an individual, who has not a single ounce of creativity in his body and soul.

    Microsoft “Word” is the one product, that made MS into MS, even that was not created by MS!

    Bill Gates can not even use MS OFFICE, read his email to MSIT, it is on the web.

    How many million times, have students at every level of education,i.e. High School, JC,Undergraduate, Graduate schools etc, lost their work because of:

    1.”MS WORD failed to save file”
    2.”click OK to continue”!

    An absolute disgrace of a Company, they monopolized everything, killed off every competitor by either buying them out and closing shop and turning off support, or at best made it into another “no can do”, “pay me more, if you want answers why it is not working” department?
    Or by stealing, “copying an pasting” other’s achivements and ideas! Do you need examples?
    Remember, buying a programm, thinking you that you achieved some level of freedom, by spending 100s of hard earnend dollars on a programm, 3 months later, it is bought out by MS, and killed off! Better yet selling garbage like, XP in 2001, we used to call it “exposed”, with patch over patch over patch,year after year! Today XP, is “it”, why because of “VISTA”!!!
    In the mid 90′s Gates gave some $40 million to Apple’s Jobs (his so called friend), keeping it alive, “because competition is good for MS”!!
    Window’s 98SE and MS2000/Network, were lean efficent products,over a decade ago!

    What is money? If you have an unlimited amount, it becomes as valuable as sand on the beach,worthless,a “Fine”, is supposed to cause pain, hence forcing one to correct their behavior, what is $200 million?
    It is not even a slap on the wrist, a fine would be $20 billion, forcing them to rethink their sick policies, something tangible!!
    Why not a refund on all copies of MS Word? Free MS Word for all,as a penalty?
    With a corrupt Congress in it’s back pocket, it destroyes lives daily and legally!

    My favorite analogy of MS is as follows:
    “If refrigerators would have been made as reliable as MS Word, the world population would have been a fraction of what it is today, why you ask? Because of food poisoning!

    Even at that point,MS would take credit for it:

    “Helping humanity,control excess world population growth”!

    Thank You

    PS:
    For the record I do not own any shares of MS or Apple, I typed this on my Asus 900 XP w/MS Word 2000!
    I will buy an Apple Netbook/Tablet,if one is ever made.
    I Applaud Open Office,Android,…for leading the cause of access for all!

  • http://www.hernandezlawAZ.com TechnoBeaver

    @ Jeremiah

    It occurred to me, English might not be Sam’s first language – I’m just saying. If it is, wtf??

    @ “Tyrone D”

    You wrote: “Apple fanboys/girls, just accept the truth – Apple will never surpass Microsoft in anything. Not happening.”

    What the hell does that even mean?? That’s like saying Capital Grille won’t overtake McDonalds or that Newcastle won’t overtake Bud Light.

    Listen up. I’m a man. I’m 47. Two years ago I bought my first mac. Now I have 3. Before then it was Zenith, then ibm clone, then Dell, then Sony Vaio, ae more Dells, an HP – all CRAP. All of them. Buggy. Bloated. Infected. POS’s. I was always frustrated. I had a computer repair guy on speed dial. My wife started to have a thing for him. With my Macs, zero problems. ZERO!!

    So, Tyrone D., and all the rest of you Apple haters, I don’t give a fuck if Apple surpasses “Microsoft” in sales. But when it comes to quality, reliability, ease of use, aesthetics, etc., Apple surpassed the non-Apple world a long time ago.

    This is Conrad Hernandez writing on his BlackBerry Bold because it kicks the shit out of the iPhone!

    Give me back my son!!!!

    Very Truly Yours,

    Conrad P. Hernández, Esq.

  • Name (required)

    DAYUMN!!!…He pulled Zenith out on you youngsta’s!

  • http://www.hernandezlawAZ.com TechnoBeaver

    Yup. Zenith, Z-100. Dual floppy drives. Actually not a bad machine for the time.

    CH.

  • DigDug

    Techno, not only are Macs reliable and problem free, the best feature is they are q u i e t!

    All of the Dells I have owned sound like a Harrier during liftoff when the PC is running two hufe programs simultaneously, like NotePad and Calculator.

    Macs are nice and quiet, which is crucial in a small manhattan apartment.

  • Anjali

    MS gets what it deserves.
    An eye-for-an-eye!

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