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A judge on Tuesday ordered Microsoft to stop all sales of Microsoft Word within 60 days. This order stems from a complaint from a company called i4i which hit the mother load filed a complaint that Microsoft infringed on certain patents related to the creation of XML documents. Analysts think an appeal is likely and that there’s little likelihood that Word will be pulled from the market. Available options could likely include paying i4i a big bag of money, devising a workaround or stripping XML functionality.

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