New Law Magazine

A most discussed legal affair in August 2009 is a permanent ban on recent version of Microsoft Word has been issued by US district court in Texas. This ban was declared in August which restricted the world’s biggest software maker from selling their new version of Word.
A Technology firm based on Toronto known as I4i has filed a copyright issue in court.
If the claim will proved then the injunction could stop selling process of any version of Word 2003 and 2007 by Microsoft. If this will happen, Microsoft has to make some significance changes in new version of Microsoft Word in 2010.
The decision of injunction was taken in May in favor of I4i and awarded US $290 million damage by US district court in Texas. The US court granted appeal of stay order and hearing will be on 23 September 2009.
Microsoft officially appealed to judgment that the arguments may cause severe harm to their business, because Word is big revenue (i.e. $3 billion in a fiscal year) generator product for Microsoft and it is used by millions of users.
Already sold copies of Word are not affected by this issue. But the manufacturer, retailers and dealers are facing disrupt in their business because of injunction. Some dealers who sell computers with software get affected due to issue.
Dell and Hewlett-Packard, the largest customer of Microsoft supported to the Microsoft appeal for stay on injunction. Some more companies argue that injunction would harm their businesses too.