> Tue Dec 22, 2009 2:23PM EST
>
>
> Office workers of America, enjoy your Christmas break. Because come
> the new year, things could get a little hairy around the office.
> Microsoft Word is now scheduled to be prohibited from sale beginning
> January 11, 2010. That's less than three weeks away. The good news:
> Microsoft has promised a fix, one which will be rolled out before
> the deadline arrives.
>
> If you don't understand, you might have simply missed this story, or
> dismissed it as something that Microsoft would ultimately use its
> considerable clout to have pushed under a legal rug.
>
> But it's no joke. In August of this year, a court sided with a small
> Canadian company called i4i that holds a 1998 patent on the way the
> XML language is implemented, finding that Microsoft was in violation
> of that patent. The result: Microsoft was told to license the code
> in question from i4i or reprogram it, or else Microsoft Word would
> have to be removed from sale in the market. The original ruling gave
> Microsoft until October to get its legal affairs in order, but
> appeals pushed that out a bit.
>
> Now a federal court has upheld that original ruling -- plus a fat,
> $290 million judgment against the company -- imposing the new
> January 11 D-Day on the matter. Microsoft Word and Microsoft Office
> will both be barred from sale as of that date -- though naturally
> you'll still be able to use copies of Word and Office that you
> already own, and Microsoft will be allowed to keep supporting those
> copies.
>
> Unless Microsoft ships the promised technical workaround very
> quickly, things are going to get extremely dicey in the computer
> world, and fast. Not only will retail outlets selling shrinkwrapped
> copies of the software be affected, computer manufacturers (who
> complained loudly about this injunction when it was announced) who
> bundle Word and Office on the computers they sell will also be
> seriously impacted by the ruling.
>
> There's always a chance things will change again as the January 11
> deadline approaches, but if your company requires Word or Office to
> keep operations running, it might not be a bad idea to stock up on a
> few extra copies now.
>
Fanky Christian
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