Topic: Judge Orders Microsoft to Stop Sales of Word
A federal court has found Microsoft liable of infringing a patent held by a Canadian technology company, i4i, and has assessed the company about $290 million in fines. More surprisingly, however, was that the court blocked Microsoft's sale of its Word word processor.
Judge Davis ruled that Microsoft could not sell Microsoft Word 2003, Microsoft Word 2007, and future Microsoft Word products that might infringe on the patent.
Full story at http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,2817,2351492,00.asp
--> An alternative to Microsoft Office would be the OpenOffice suite, available free at http://www.openoffice.org/
