Microsoft loses patent appeal; Word and Office to be barred from sale starting Januar

[Texanballer]

So office will be sold by that other company?

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So office will be sold by that other company?

no


to try and put it plainly

Office is using a method that another company invented/patented... office isnt paying royalties to this company and since they have it patented, they sued, and the ruling is, MS is no longer allowed to sell this product since it uses someone else's program/method or whatever you want to call it... the company can't sell it instead, because the actual product is STILL a microsoft product, it just borrows other company's ideas illegally, in other words

my guess is that MS will try to buy their way out of it though

[COVID-19]

May Steve Ballmer stay CEO of Microsoft for as long as it takes.

[ƒallenloki]

Time to break out the checkbook

[ILLuminato]

God DAMN at your sig.

[Left Hook Tua]

no


to try and put it plainly

Office is using a method that another company invented/patented... office isnt paying royalties to this company and since they have it patented, they sued, and the ruling is, MS is no longer allowed to sell this product since it uses someone else's program/method or whatever you want to call it... the company can't sell it instead, because the actual product is STILL a microsoft product, it just borrows other company's ideas illegally, in other words

my guess is that MS will try to buy their way out of it though

microsoft office is too profitable to stop selling.

they'll work out a deal where the guys that hold the patent will either get a percentage of ms office sales or they'll buy the patent outright.

this will be on top of whatever they have to pay for patent infringement.

that other company is gonna make a lot of money. hopefully their employees have shares of the company. they're all rich and can retire now.

[krispy kreme]

Sounds more like a true Chinese.

By the way, I agree with the Chinese on that.

And so I am now Chinese.

[Killa_Kali]

those who are having second thoughts about pirated version of MS Office can always get OpenOffice.

http://www.openoffice.org/

OpenOffice.org 3 is the leading open-source office software suite for word processing, spreadsheets, presentations, graphics, databases and more. It is available in many languages and works on all common computers. It stores all your data in an international open standard format and can also read and write files from other common office software packages. It can be downloaded and used completely free of charge for any purpose.

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those who are having second thoughts about pirated version of MS Office can always get OpenOffice.

http://www.openoffice.org/

or just use google docs