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Microsoft Files "Emergency Motion" To Ship Word

Posted by kdawson on from the my-word dept.

adeelarshad82 writes "Several days after a judge ordered Microsoft to halt sales of Word and handed down $290M in fines, the software giant has moved to stop the ban. On Friday Microsoft filed an emergency motion to stop the judgment and waive the bond requirement, according to court filings. The actual document was filed under seal, so the full contents of the request have not yet been made public."

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  1. I figure that by Winckle · · Score: 4, Funny

    the sealed bond is just the publicly available document and the rest is just stuffed with $100 bills.

    1. Re:I figure that by DrLang21 · · Score: 4, Funny

      and cocaine

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    2. Re:I figure that by InsertWittyNameHere · · Score: 4, Funny

      From the filing:

      "Okay, maybe my we did steal XML, but so what? Computer software is built on plagiarism! If it weren't for someone plagiarizing Xerox, we wouldn't have Windows 3.1! If someone hadn't ripped off Apple, there'd be no Vista! iPod, Zune, XBOX? Google, Bing, MSN Live. Your honor, if you take away our right to steal ideas, where are they gonna come from?"

  2. I have a feeling by Reason58 · · Score: 5, Funny

    In this case it appears that the courts will not have the last word.

    1. Re:I have a feeling by Reason58 · · Score: 5, Funny

      Getting their way is something Microsoft excels at. It is easy when you have access to their resources and the outlook to dominate any market they enter.

      Powerpoint.

    2. Re:I have a feeling by jaavaaguru · · Score: 5, Funny

      Word.

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  3. I wonder if... by Jahava · · Score: 5, Funny

    I wonder if the request was delivered as a Word document.

  4. What was filed under seal by Nom+du+Keyboard · · Score: 4, Funny

    What was filed under seal:

    Dear Judge, The world will end if we can't continue shipping Word.

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  5. I think it was more like this: by CorporateSuit · · Score: 5, Funny

    The current location of your daughter is in the attached file. Unfortunately for you, this file can only be read by the latest software version of Word we're commercially releasing next week.

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    File attached: clownfart.wdoc

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