Microsoft Will Patch Mac Word to Comply With Court Order

From PC World: Microsoft will patch Word on the Mac to comply with a federal court's ruling requiring it to remove custom XML technology from its popular word processing software, the company confirmed last week.

On Saturday, Microsoft issued an update for Word 2003 for Windows to abide by the same ruling.

In late December, a federal appeals court affirmed a lower court's injunction that barred Microsoft from selling Word 2007 and Word 2003 starting Monday, Jan. 11 unless it dumped custom XML features from the software. In May 2009, a Texas court also ordered Microsoft to pay developer i4i nearly $300 million in damages, court costs and interest for allegedly violating the Canadian company's custom XML patent.

Word 2007 for Windows was first updated in 2009 with a version for computer makers , then last week with a patch aimed at end users .

According to Microsoft spokesman Kevin Kutz, Word 2003, which was also named in the injunction, must be modified because customers purchasing or licensing Word 2007 have "downgrade" rights to the older edition.

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