[ Thanks to Jason
Greenwood for this link. ]
“Microsoft is defending its patenting of an XML process, saying
the company has to defend its intellectual property and that it is
giving away the fruits of its labour for free.“As Computerworld Online reported last week Microsoft has
applied for a patent governing the storing of word processing
documents in XML. Microsoft has applied for the patent in Europe
and in New Zealand–neither jurisdiction has granted the
application yet…”