A Texas federal court’s ruling last week that forbids Microsoft from selling new copies of Word 2003 and Word 2007 will have little impact on you and me. Technically the order restricts Microsoft from selling (or supporting) any “any infringing and Future Word Products that have the capability of opening a .XML, .DOCX or .DOCM file (”an XML file”) containing custom XML.” It is the “custom XML” language that makes the ruling unimportant for most people.





