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• Accountants ditch Word, Excel to ease reporting

  The struggle to produce both annual and half-yearly financial accounts with optimum accuracy and consistency is no easy feat, even more so using only a trusty Word document and Excel spreadsheet, as staff at Leydin Freyer Chartered Accountants well know.

• Microsoft asks for rehearing in Word case

  Microsoft asked an appeals court for a rehearing in the patent case that requires the software giant to pay US$290 million in damages and prevents it from selling the current version of Word starting on Monday.

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  Microsoft ships Office 2007 patch to meet court deadline

  Microsoft on Wednesday posted an update for Word 2007 that ditches the custom XML tagging technology a federal court banned the company from including in its software after Jan. 10.

• Microsoft, i4i square off in appeals hearing over Word

  A federal appeals court today heard arguments in a patent infringement case involving Word that required Microsoft to pay nearly US$300 million in damages and barred the company from selling the software starting Oct. 10.

• Court could restore Word injunction, says i4i

  Just a day before a crucial hearing in the patent infringement case between Canadian developer i4i and Microsoft, i4i's top executive said that the injunction that forbids Microsoft from selling Word could be reinstated.

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  Microsoft stabbed i4i in the back with Word, developer claims

  Microsoft marketed Canadian developer i4i's XML software to potential customers at the same time it planned to drive the small firm out of business by infringing its patent, according to court documents filed yesterday with an appeals court.

• Appeals court grants Microsoft reprieve in Word case

  A US federal appeals court today granted Microsoft's request to suspend an injunction that would have barred the company from selling its Word software next month.

• Microsoft gets reprieve in Word case

  An appeals court has granted Microsoft's request to put off an injunction that could have forced it to stop selling its Microsoft Word software next month.

• Microsoft: Word patent ruling, injunction 'miscarriage of justice'

  Microsoft Corp.'s lawyers late yesterday said the verdict that awarded a Canadian developer nearly $300 million in damages and resulted in an impending ban on sales of the company's popular Word software was a "miscarriage of justice."

• Microsoft wins fast-track appeal of Word ban

  A panel of federal judges has granted Microsoft Corp.'s request for a fast-track appeal of the injunction that prohibits the company from selling its popular Word software after Oct. 10.

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  Judge orders Microsoft to pay US$300M in Word patent case

  Microsoft must pay nearly US$300 million in damages and interest to Canadian company i4i because it infringed the latter's patent for a document system that relies on XML custom formatting, according to court documents filed yesterday.

• Injunction on Microsoft Word unlikely to halt sales

  A judge on Tuesday ordered Microsoft to stop selling Microsoft Word products in their current form in the U.S., but legal appeals or technical work-arounds make an actual halt of sales unlikely.

• Rigged Word docs exploit 2008 bug, say researchers

  Attackers, probably based in China, are exploiting a December bug in Microsoft Word to hijack Windows PCs, Vietnamese security researchers warned Thursday.

• Microsoft testing a better rival to Google Docs

  Microsoft has begun testing some Web-based Office applications that will be delivered through Office Live Workspace, its online adjunct to Microsoft Office, and will give the company a closer rival to online application suites such as Google Docs.