Microsoft Pulls Office From Its Own Online Store

CWmike writes "Microsoft has pulled almost every version of Office from its own online store to comply with a court order requiring it to remove custom XML technology from its popular Word software that starts on Monday. As of mid-day, the only edition available from the Microsoft Store was Office Ultimate 2007, a $670 'full-version' suite. All other Windows editions, as well as Office 2008 for Mac, were accompanied by the message: 'This product is currently unavailable while we update versions on our site. We expect it to be available soon.' Microsoft confirmed that the disappearance of Office was related to the injunction that came out of a patent infringement case the company lost in 2009. 'We've taken steps to comply with the court's ruling and we're introducing the revised software into the US market," said Michael Croan, a senior marketing manager, in an e-mail. He also downplayed the move. 'This process will be imperceptible to the vast majority of customers, who will find both trial and purchase options readily available.'"

Comments

MS can always torrent for some new copies to sell.

[Anonymous Coward]

If Microsoft has run out of copies then they can try the torrent networks and use a keygen. Hey, I'm just trying to help out the big guy here.

office memories

[zmollusc]

Ah, I remember when I used office last. I was trying to make a template for a pamphlet and needed the text to overflow from one page to another to another. I found that it could only flow a suspicious number of times(8 or 16 or 32 or something) even after patching to the latest version. At that point, realising that i would always have to struggle round limitations in applications, I decided to struggle round the ones in free software rather than pay for the privilege like a chump.