Microsoft Word Remains Under Scrutiny After Patent Loss

i4i, the Canadian developer that won a $290 million court judgment against Microsoft, will be going over future Microsoft software extremely carefully to make sure its patent hasn’t been infringed. Although Loudon Owen declined to say whether his company’s software engineers had been picking through Office 2010 — which Microsoft said did not use i4i’s Custom XML technology — he promised that they would be looking at all Microsoft software for evidence of wrongdoing. Microsoft released a public beta of Office 2010 in mid-November