Microsoft has often been vilified for his embrace and extends open standards approach and the software giant now faces a heavy penalty for tinkering with Extensible Markup Language (XML).  Wednesday, a federal court in Texas has slapped Microsoft with a counterfeit $ 200 million to include Canadian software companies la ’s technology in Microsoft Word.Toronto-based i4i, director of collaborative solutions contented XML-based, Microsoft continued in 2007 to adapt the XML in the word in 2003 and 2007 expressed in a way that violated i4i ’s patent, the costs that Microsoft denied. According to Bloomberg News, cases of i4i le ‘its on Microsoft ‘ s method to deal with word using the codes included providing instructions on how the information appears.

While he was in the past acts that asylum le ‘t go his way, Microsoft insists didn ‘ t violate i4i ’s patent and the patent is unacceptable. Microsoft asked the court to return the verdict, new Bowermaster said by David Bloomberg spokesman for Microsoft.

Last month, a federal court in Rhode Island has ordered Microsoft to pay $ 388 million in damages violate a patent owned by Antipiracy UNILOC, a director of Singapore-based software Antipiracy. Claims Microsoft Antipiracy Mechanism of activation of Windows product s ( ‘of UNILOC WPA) violates its patents, and Microsoft appealed to the act as well.

In 2004, z4 Technologies, a Michigan-based ownership of the patent, Microsoft continued to use its technology in WPA, and in April 2006 won a $ 115 million ruling against Microsoft in the District Court of the United States in East Texas.

Microsoft, naturally, is far more accustomed to trials of counterfeit grading it to defend itself. Microsoft claims that free software and / or open-source violates 235 of its patents, and in February, the TomTom in-car manufacturer of GPS device to a company for infringement of three of them in the TomTom ’s performance of grain Linux.

However, this case has opened a can of worms for Microsoft, as the invention of open network, an organization that protects the industry by acquiring Linux and patents to open-source licensing, invited the community open-source to review the three patents with Microsoft but they rendered useless for further proceedings.

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