Remember this one? Well, the supreme court ruled that Microsoft did use some code illegally, and needs to cough up $290 million in favor to i4i.
They (i4i) must be celebrating somewhere in the tropics by now I imagine.... $290m is something I don't carry around in my wallet every day.
The court also decided that the existing Office/Word installments in the world don't need the patented code removed. New purchases from January 11, 2010 will have no illegal code (as does Office/Word 2010).
This basically results into 2 different Office/Word versions. I wonder how long it takes before the first incompatibility bug raises its ugly head.......
Thankfully I won't have to deal with this in my personal life.