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Story: Patent ruling forces Office upgrades

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"It was recently decided in a court of law that certain portions of code found in Microsoft Office Professional Edition 2003, Microsoft Office Access 2003, Microsoft Office XP Professional and Microsoft Access 2002 infringe a third-party patent," Microsoft said in an e-mail to customers. "As a result, Microsoft must make available a revised version of these products with the allegedly infringing code replaced."
This is what M$ calls innovation, using technology "borrowed" from others and hoping it isn't found. Even their next OS offering, VISTA, borrows from MAC OSX
and Linux, but they will claim it as their own "innovation"

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