Looks like you no longer have a word processor for the next generations of Micro$oft Window$ operating systems. Better make do with Wordpad or Notepad.
Looks like you no longer have a word processor for the next generations of Micro$oft Window$ operating systems. Better make do with Wordpad or Notepad.
Word.
Thankfully, my processor has always been Word Perfect, though by many to be a step ahead of Word.
fyi
OpenOffice.org rules.
According to more than a few big corporates, their employees don’t have the skills necessary to use a word processor other than Word. Will they be deleted, too, or will we have to wait until the big default occurs? And what of the millions of terribly unskilled workers (and unemployable, according to our free traitor overlords) who are able to switch from one package or operating system to another on the fly? ;-)
Good God...no bias here, eh?
The way I read this, they can no longer sell it, but what does it mean to all the people who have bought and installed it already?
Does it cover the Mac versions of the program?
Given Microsoft’s previous actions in such lawsuits, they will most likely buy out the plaintiff.
A patent case of robbery.
Mixed feelings here. As someone who works in the software industry my take is that the overly loose US patent laws where software is concerned are stifling creativity. OTOH, as a Canadian, having watched RIM get hosed in US courts based on a rather marginal patent claim, I enjoy seeing one of ours hosing down Microsoft in a similar way.
The patent affects OpenOffice too, as well as any other word processing program that uses XML.
Using XML to represent a document is obvious to any person ‘skilled in the art’ of computer programming, as the patent lingo goes.
These idiotic combo patents (use A to create B) make practically impossible nowadays to write a non-trivial software application without tripping over a dozen of them. This includes writing freeware for Linux.
I own one of these idiot combo patents: Use SQL to create a user password database. My boss made me apply for it, and I was astonished to see it granted.
Well, my word!
Microsoft is evil
OpenOffice.org (a Word type program that is a free download) works just fine for me.
An interesting side note to this.
I work as an editor for scientific and academic papers. A number of journals do not accept papers in Word 2007 because of coding issues. Authors are directed to save their work in an earlier version of Word before submission.