Latest news from Microsoft:
"It was recently decided in a court of law that certain portions of code found in Microsoft Office Professional Edition 2003, Microsoft Office Access 2003, Microsoft Office XP Professional and Microsoft Access 2002 infringe a third-party patent. As a result, Microsoft must make available a revised version of these products with the allegedly infringing code replaced. "
Apparently as a result of this you now have to install post SP2 versions of Office ONLY. Oh and MS would really, really, really like it if you could upgrade any existing installs too. Is your next trip to Office Update going to break your favourite feature? I guess not, MS wouldn't announce this unless they'd worked out some replacement code already I guess. I'd love to know which companies IP was being misused but I can't find out. I get far too many results when I Google "Microsoft" + "Patent Infringement"...
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