Thread: EU & US Vs. Microsoft

Originally Posted by ninja9578

Damn, I'm gonna defend Microsoft on this one *shutters*. Microsoft can make any API that they want private, it's their API, as long as they don't completely shut out the hooks into Windows someone else can make a public (and most likely better) API.

The above is the evidence presented at the Comes Vs. Microsoft case (filed in Iowa, US), and relates to MS's overcharging for software and services

http://www.forbes.com/2007/02/14/mic...microsoft.html

The case hung around for seven years before being settled out of court in 2007

Originally Posted by ninja9578

Also, didn't know why Ynot didn't mention this: The Supreme Court upheld the ruling on the XML case with the Candian company, they have about two weeks to pull Office with docx formatting off of the shelves. Rumor is that they're going to release a different Office 07 without it in leu of waiting for Office '10 to be released.

At the moment, there's nothing really to say on this
It all hangs on what MS actually does with Word
There's (as ever) wild speculation, but the deadline is 11th January 2010, for MS to strip Word of the offending features (relating to OOXML)