[SoCoSA/discuss] MS Office 2003 illegal now?

[Mark Street]

Here is a notice I wrote to my contractor a couple of weeks ago.

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We received a notice from MS Licensing regarding action required to upgrade 
our installation of MS Office because of infringing code in MS Office.

As a result of the ruling we are required to:

Install Microsoft Office 2003 Service Pack 2 (Office 2003 SP2) for all our 
future deployments of Office Professional Edition 2003 and Office Access 
2003,

Install the Microsoft Office XP Service Pack 3 Patch (Office XP SP3 Patch) for 
all our future deployments of Office XP Professional and Access 2002

http://office.microsoft.com/en-us/officeupdate/default.aspx

On Thursday February 16 2006 3:48 pm, Steve S. wrote:
> So, the trade press has this story about MS losing a patent-battle
> over Office '03 technology, and having some sort of
> patch/upgrade/servicepack/etc...
>
> I can't find it explicitly mentioned on the Microsoft website.
>
> Can anyone tell me exactly what's involved in getting "legal"?

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