For those who really enjoy or love Microsoft Word, I have bad news because this coming New Year, Word is going to be prohibited from sale beginning from January 11, 2010, which by the way is less than 3 weeks away.

So what happen? If you did not heard, early on August of this year, a court sided with a Canadian company called i4i that holds a 1998 patent on the way the XML language is implemented. They found that Microsoft was in violation of that patent.

As a result of that 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. They are imposing the new January 11 day on the matter.

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