﻿ Microsoft pulls Office from distribution channels on patent-
infringement deadline day | ZDNet  Microsoft pulls Office from
distribution channels on patent-infringement deadline day
Summary: January 11 is/was the day by which Microsoft was
required to stop selling versions of Office or components of it
that included the Custom XML technology, as a result of a
patent-infringement ruling against the company. Given that
Microsoft released to PC makers a patch designed to remove the
infringing technology at the end of last year, it looked like
the Softies were ready to comply with the ruling over a month
ago. But now it looks like that wasn't the case....   Given that
Microsoft released to PC makers a patch designed to remove the
infringing technology at the end of last year, it looked like
the Softies were ready to comply with the ruling over a month
ago. But on or just before the actual compliance deadline,
Microsoft ended up pulling existing copies of Office that
included the technology from its various dist