Microsoft has been ordered to stop selling Windows XP in China after a court ruled that certain fonts in the operating system infringe on a Chinese firm’s intellectual property.
On Monday, Beijing’s 1st Intermediate People’s Court decided that Microsoft had overstepped a deal with Zhongyi Electronics to include the company’s Chinese fonts in Windows 95 by also slipping them into eight other versions of Windows without permission. The alleged font-pas includes Windows 95, 98, 2000, and XP — but not more recent releases: Vista and Windows 7.
Uncategorized November 20th 2009