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Update, 11:10 a.m. PST: Added response from Microsoft.

I4i said Wednesday that it refutes the latest claims made by Microsoft in an XML patent infringement case involving Word.

I4i Chairman Loudon Owen called Microsoft's claims "the same weak defenses Microsoft repackaged from the trial and raised on appeal."

Following its recent appeal, Microsoft was granted a stay of an injunction last week that would have forced the company to stop selling Word in its current form by next month.

In its appeal, Microsoft criticized the district court that ordered it to stop selling Word, claiming … Read more

Updated at 8:30 p.m. PDT with comment from i4i.

Microsoft has been granted a stay of a landmark injunction in a patent infringement case that would have required the software giant to stop selling its popular Word in its current form by next month.

The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit on Thursday granted Microsoft's motion for a stay, pending appeal, of an injunction issued in August by a federal judge that bars sales of Word that include a custom XML code found to infringe on patents held by i4i--the plaintiff.

"We are … Read more

The infamous U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Texas has slapped Microsoft with a permanent injunction that "prohibits Microsoft from selling or importing to the United States any Microsoft Word products that have the capability of opening .XML, .DOCX or DOCM files (XML files) containing custom XML," according to CNET. This likely won't stop Microsoft Office from shipping, as CNET's Ina Fried writes, but the bigger question may be whether the lawsuit will reach beyond Redmond to also threaten the Open Document Format (ODF).The lawsuit doesn't affect all of Microsoft Office, … Read more

A judge on Tuesday ordered Microsoft to stop selling Word, one of its premier products, in its current form due to patent infringement.

Judge Leonard Davis of the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Texas issued a permanent injunction that "prohibits Microsoft from selling or importing to the United States any Microsoft Word products that have the capability of opening .XML, .DOCX or DOCM files (XML files) containing custom XML," according to a statement released by attorneys for the plantiff, i4i.

Microsoft said it … Read more

OrgScheduler is an attractive and intuitive schedule management program that is a pleasure to use. Although it is not crammed with extra features, it does the basics very well and has a few cool extras to boot.

We loved that OrgScheduler's interface is so clean and intuitive, yet offers users plenty of options. The options for viewing the calendar alone are impressive, with vertical and horizontal views, daily calendars with increments as small as 5 minutes, quarterly and annual views, and quite a few others. However you like to look at your calendar, OrgScheduler can accommodate you, and will … Read more

The world is full of feed readers. Portable FeedReader's claim to fame is its portability, obviously, but there's more to like than just being able to cram it on your USB drive with room to spare.

The program offers a standard RSS feed-reading interface with three vertical panes. One lists the feeds, the second shows the titles of the selected feeds stories, and the third serves as a viewer. Although the panes' width can be changed by clicking and dragging, the viewer pane is a bit narrow to comfortably read a typical Web page story. Portable FeedReader offers … Read more

Microsoft on Tuesday released its November 2008 security bulletin, including one patch rated "critical."

The critical bulletin affects Microsoft XML Core Services and Internet Explorer, while the "important" bulletin affects Microsoft Server Message Block (SMB) Protocol. Both affect all versions of Windows. Starting last month, Microsoft is sharing the technical details of new vulnerabilities to give software developers a chance to update affected products before the public announcement. Microsoft is including within each bulletin an "exploitability index" to help system administrators prioritize the patches. All Microsoft security patches for both Windows and Office software … Read more

Looking for a simple-to-use, quick-performing RSS feed reader? This pared-down freebie may fit the bill.

RiverGate RSS Reader isn't fancy and lacks extras that, admittedly, some of its free competitors offer. So why bother with it? For one, using it is as smooth and zippy as other readers can be sluggish. It offers the basics in the familiar three-pane e-mail client interface that so many feed readers rely on. It comes preloaded with a variety of security-related feeds, plus one innocuous celebrity gossip/newsfeed, but adding feeds was a simple process in our tests. The reader responded quickly and … Read more

IBM thinks it's time to clean up standards bodies.

The computing giant on Tuesday said that it will review its membership in existing standards bodies and withdraw from those that are not sufficiently transparent in their processes and intellectual property practices.

IBM convened a group of experts this summer to diagnose problems in the "standards community." It published the group's findings on Tuesday.

Participating in standards bodies is fraught with uncertainty and unpredictability, an IBM representative said on Tuesday. Because of "bad behavior" among participants, there is a risk that developing countries will shun … Read more