MSFT Word Banned from sales and fined

For those of you who haven't heard a Toronto company sued Microsoft and won. No that is not a typo. A small company beat the almighty Microsoft in court. Microsoft owes $240 million and is banned to selling Word in 60 days over copyright infringement. MS Office is a $3 billion dollar property for Microsoft and they are appealing the ruling. I don't foresee this having any effect on MSFT as they have good management. They'll pay the fine and it'll be over.

Next week there will be patch from Microsoft circumventing the court ruling. As I type this there are people working in Seattle to work themselves around the lawsuit. They used the same tactic around a European lawsuit a few years back.

Moreso, I was just proud of i4i, Inc for beating Microsoft in court. Large firms have great lawyers and wads of cash so things like this do not happen. Congrats to i4i,Inc and good luck to anybody suing Microsoft in the future.