UPDATE: Get your copy of M$ Word while you still can
Thursday, December 24, 2009 at 1:33 pm
Windows 98 Annoyances Discussion Forum
Posted by gewg_
(4444 messages posted)
gewg_ wrote:
|the judge ordered (effective 60 days hence)
|that M$ will have to stop shipping infringing versions of M$ Word.
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Way back then, an appellate court issued a stay on that 60-day order.
The court has now decided that after January 11, 2010
M$ must abide by the original ruling.
Redmond still owes i4i $290,000,000.
M$ is making noises that they might take this to the Supreme Court.
Of course, that assumes that SCOTUS won't decide *this* case first
http://google.com/search?q="in.re.Bilski"
and that they will decide software patents[1] are unconstitutional.
...and all of this ignores the fact that OOXML is a HORRIBLE "standard"
cache
of http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=08/04/21/1821251#23150806
with a huge amount of skulduggery involved in its "fast track" ISO approval
cache
of http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=07/08/28/1237255#20383881
and I mean A LOT of scummy practices
cache
of http://www.robweir.com/blog/2008/01/you-are-here.html
...and the whole "Custom XML" thing is mostly overrated anyway.
cache
of http://www.tbray.org/ongoing/When/200x/2009/12/22/On-Custom-XML
It now appears that M$ will simply remove OOXML from M$Word
after having broken so many laws to get that badly broken format kick-started.
For Win98 users this means
that you will have less of a chance of receiving an (unreadable) *.DOCX,
since that file format was made the default of Save in M$Office 2007
(i.e. yet again invoking the infamous M$ Forced Upgrade Cycle).
[1] ...when the software is not integral to a hardware invention.
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