When a judge halted the sale of Microsoft Word on Tuesday for infringing a patent, many of us wondered about the repercussions of this decision. The patent itself, for the creation of custom XML ...

The short version of the story so many are talking about today: A Texas judge is barring Microsoft from selling Microsoft Word due to alleged patent infringement and fining the Redmondians ...

You read that right: Microsoft cannot sell Word, the judge ruled. … i4i alleges Microsoft willingly violated its 1998 patent (No. 5,787,449) on a method for reading XML.

In an ongoing dispute over the use of XML in Word, Microsoft called the claim by Canadian developer i4i that it plotted to drive the company out of business "distorted," and "a breathless tale ...

Mary provides a beginner's walkthrough of new functionality for using XML, allowing you to separate the data in a document or worksheet from its presentation in Word 2003 and Excel 2003.

Microsoft already has a patch for the patent problem in Word and is telling U.S. OEMs to apply it, removing the ability to strip out custom XML from files before allowing users to edit them.

Companies have completed the first phase of a Microsoft-sponsored project to create software that can convert Microsoft Word documents between Open XML and Open Document Format for Office ...

A recently granted patent, however, reveals that the entire effort took place while Microsoft had a patent pending that covers nearly any use of XML for storing word processing documents.

Microsoft has now released the plug-in, which adds a "Save as DAISY XML" option to Microsoft Office Word 2007, Word 2003 and Word XP.

XML is used in recent versions of Microsoft's word-processor Word. Texas district court judge Leonard Davis also filed an injunction preventing Microsoft from selling Word. The row specifically ...