{"id":682,"date":"2009-08-12T19:19:50","date_gmt":"2009-08-12T18:19:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.plexuk.co.uk\/?p=682"},"modified":"2009-08-12T19:19:50","modified_gmt":"2009-08-12T18:19:50","slug":"judge-bans-microsoft-word-sales","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/plexuk.co.uk\/?p=682","title":{"rendered":"Judge bans Microsoft Word sales"},"content":{"rendered":"

A US federal court has ordered Microsoft to pay over $290m (\u00c2\u00a3175m) for wilfully infringing on a patent by Canadian firm i4i.<\/b><\/p>\n

The patent relates to the use of XML, a programming language that allows formatting of text and makes files readable across different programs.<\/p>\n

XML is integral to Microsoft’s flagship word processing software Word. <\/p>\n

Texas district court judge Leonard Davis also filed an injunction preventing Microsoft from selling Word. <\/p>\n

Link – http:\/\/news.bbc.co.uk\/1\/hi\/technology\/8197990.stm<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

A US federal court has ordered Microsoft to pay over $290m (\u00c2\u00a3175m) for wilfully infringing on a patent by Canadian firm i4i. The patent relates to the use of XML, a programming language that allows formatting of text and makes files readable across different programs. XML is integral to Microsoft’s flagship word processing software Word. […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[8,21],"class_list":["post-682","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-microsoft","tag-word"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/plexuk.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/682","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/plexuk.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/plexuk.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/plexuk.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/plexuk.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=682"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/plexuk.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/682\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/plexuk.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=682"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/plexuk.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=682"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/plexuk.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=682"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}