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This is fantastic. Microsoft FINALLY lost a patent case! Starting January 11 2010, MS Word and Office will be barred from sale, permanently.
Of course, MS has said that versions of the software are in development that do not contain the infringing features, so if all goes well, you won’t notice a single thing different about the retail shelves.
Check out the read link above for the details.
Perhaps Mark Shuttleworth is right when he so gleefully welcomes the release of Windows 7. Ever since Vista was released on January 31st, 2007, Linux has been gaining a lot of steam, thanks to Vista’s many pitfalls.
Ubuntu is without a doubt leading the charge when it comes to proliferation of the Linux kernel, and thanks to the popularity of netbooks, Linux is fastly becoming the operating system of choice for many netbook users.
Microsoft isn’t comfortable with this trend.
Its been known for a long time that visiting certain sites while using Internet explorer can look different than visiting a site using any other browser. Most of this is not an issue as some slight feature might be formatted a little different, but occasionally it really causes issues accessing some sites or with those sites functionality. It looks like the EU is noticing this, and in a flash back to the 90’s may be going after Microsoft.
