Microsoft Can't sell Word anymore

[schielrn]

Anyone seen this:

http://blogs.moneycentral.msn.com/t...2/judge-bans-microsoft-from-selling-word.aspx

Thought it was kind of interesting.

 

[Norie]

http://www.pcpro.co.uk/news/350722/judge-bans-sales-of-microsoft-word-in-us

 

[Domski]

Read about it on the BBC yesterday. Just a lot of sabre rattling and blowing of hot air most likely. MS will pay them off or buy them and it'll all be forgotten.

Dom

 

[schielrn]

Read about it on the BBC yesterday. Just a lot of sabre rattling and blowing of hot air most likely. MS will pay them off or buy them and it'll all be forgotten.

Dom

This is what I assume will happen as well.

 

[Domski]

It's maybe a bit more complex with Google Docs and Open Office also being involved but MS tend to have their way.

Dom

 

[DonkeyOte]

If they can't sell it how do they intend to spread the MS Word ?

(...get's coat)

 

[schielrn]

There seem to be many comedians on this board as well as excel gurus.

 

[Andrew Fergus]

It's a bit rich isn't it? The complainant instructs users to use MS Word to create templates and to author xml documents (see here). Maybe MS should invoke the very phrase that is the complainant's name.

 

[arkusM]

It's a bit rich isn't it? The complainant instructs users to use MS Word to create templates and to author xml documents (see here). Maybe MS should invoke the very phrase that is the complainant's name.

Would this not be the same as developing a bang-up app and then have MS like it so much they start distributing it with out recompense to you the developer?

@Dom. You nailed it. MS's SOP.

 

[Andrew Fergus]

I couldn't see an application the complainant had developed. Rightly or wrongly I interpreted it as a method of using Word to achieve a task.....is that not the case?