There are signs that Microsoft, have failed to adjust all options to force the Office of the court order yesterday on the Word. How do I inform the Ars Technica website, currently in the U.S. group's online store office suites such as Office Standard 2007, Office Small Business 2007, Office Standard 2007 Upgrade and Office 2008 for Mac Home and Student Edition is not available. The company has not yet modified them in such a way as to meet the conditions imposed by the first Texas court, and later by the court of appeal. According to Microsoft's software is listed again soon appear on sale shop. In the meantime, you can buy it online sets of Office Ultimate 2007, Office Professional 2007 and Office 2008 for Mac Business Edition.

In May 2009 the Canadian company has won i4i process against Microsoft for patent infringement on the processing of XML tags. Even in May, the court granted her a 200 million U.S. dollars of compensation. In August, additionally held ban on the sale of these versions to Office, which infringe the patent i4i. Microsoft appealed against this decision before the appellate court, but was defeated. Consequently, the company has responded in recent days on the court ruling, publishing patch for customers in the U.S., who after the deadline set by the court will buy Word or Office 2007.

By contrast, in U.S. retailers to purchase all products from the Office family - so at least keeps watching the daily blog of Microsoft's "Seattle Post Intelligencer. Case of the court the concern itself only prohibits further distribution version of Word using the method of processing XML documents described in the patent. Microsoft itself has been working hard to restore as soon as possible to sell out infeasible contribs Office's.