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  Microsoft Patents XML Word-processing Documents
Time: 00:32 EST/05:32 GMT | News Source: PCPro.co.uk | Posted By: Joshua Baer

Java Today reports on patent number 525484, granted to Microsoft in New Zealand, which relates to 'Word processing document stored in a single XML file that may be manipulated by applications that understand XML'. The New Zealand Open Source Society states this was actually filed on 24 April 2004, and has rather escaped people's attention.

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#1 By 1845 (67.161.212.73) at Friday, January 23, 2004 01:26:29 AM
Lol. I wonder how OpenOffice.org and StarOffice will respond to this.

#2 By 19992 (68.69.127.19) at Friday, January 23, 2004 09:04:10 PM
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Yeah fantastic, let's get to an I.T world where Microsoft has no competition whatsoever. After all, competition stifles innovation.

This post was edited by happyguy on Friday, January 23, 2004 at 21:06.



 

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