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Microsoft in web photo racism row, Apologises for Stupidity

Spot the Difference

The picture, showing employees sitting around a desk, appeared unaltered on the firm's US website.
But on the website of its Polish business unit the black man's head was replaced with a white face, although the colour of his hands were unchanged.

One would think that a company as ubiquitous as Microsoft would have the sense to realise that what they were doing was, well, racist and stupid.

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BBC NEWS | Judge bans Microsoft Word sales

It seems Microsoft infringed a patent held by Canadian firm i4i when it integrated XML into it's file formats. They've been told to stop selling Word in the US and ordered to pay damages of £175m.

But is this the end?

Will all office suites (including Office 2008 for Mac, on which I'm currently writing my PhD thesis) have to be updated so that docx compatibility is removed? Am I going to have to convert all my documents? Or, the more likely option in my view, will Microsoft offer i4i an obscene amount of money to tip-toe out the back door?

Oh, the joys of patent law...

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