MS Office lost the copyright lawsuit, did customers suffer?

In four businesses will have at least one will have to update Microsoft Office because the company developed this office application software lost in another software copyright lawsuit.

This is a California Court ruling involving a copyright lawsuit by a Guatemalan inventor Carlos Armando Amado. Accordingly, Microsoft will have to spend $ 8.9 million to compensate for the damage caused by violating a patent that Amado invented as a graduate student at Stanford. This is a license granted to a type of software designed to create links between data sheets between different Microsoft applications.

Last week, Microsoft sent e-mails to notify users in businesses that need to conduct updates for Office 2003 and Office XP versions. These updates are primarily intended to change the way Microsoft Access databases interact with Excel spreadsheets.

The content of the e-mails mentioned above by Microsoft is: ' The court recently ruled that there were some programming codes of Microsoft Office Professional Edition 2003, Microsoft Office Access 2003, Microsoft Office XP Professional and Microsoft Access 2002 copyrighted software by a third party. Therefore, Microsoft decided to issue a revision for these products that changed the code that was supposed to be copyright infringement. '

Microsoft recommends that users install a new version of Microsoft Office 2003 Service Pack 2 in the fall of 2005 and will also release another patch for Office XP. Users running MS Office versions that haven't installed any of these copyright-related updates can continue to use, but Microsoft encourages users to update them.

This is the first time that Microsoft has been quick to implement court rulings regarding copyright lawsuits. In the past, Microsoft has never released any updates to its products for legal reasons.