Tag archive: XML

When Final Cut Pro X was released during June 2011, the upgrade from Final Cut Pro 7 received plenty of negative reactions from professional videographers and poor reviews started flowing in across the Web. In early September, Apple partially addressed the backlash to the new version by allowing users to purchase Final Cut Pro 7 on the official Apple website. Today, Apple has rolled out a update to Final Cut Pro X that addresses the most common… Read More

Microsoft's long-running legal battle with Toronto's i4i is over: the Supreme Court of the United States has ruled against Microsoft's appeal of a $290 million patent infringement verdict against the company. The Supreme Court unanimously upheld a U.S. appeals court ruling against Microsoft. The patent battle goes back several years, but nearly every clash has ended in a victory for i4i, a small Canadian software company,… Read More

The U.S. Supreme Court has agreed to hear Microsoft's appeal in its patent battle with Toronto-based i4i, which has already caused the Redmond software giant to alter its top-earning Microsoft Office application suite and may cost it over $300 million in penalties. Microsoft's appeal to the Supreme Court argues that the federal appeals court—where Microsoft already lost—makes it too difficult for parties accused of… Read More

Software giant Microsoft has lost a second round of appeals in its patent infringement battle with Canada's i4i, putting the company that much closer to being on the hook for some $240 million—and that's after already having been forced to remove technology from its Microsoft Office suites in order to keep selling the software. A three-judge panel has re-affirmed the original decision against Microsoft, noting there was… Read More

Microsoft has announced it plans to develop and release free tools for users to convert between Microsoft Office's Open XML Formats and the OpenDocument Format (ODF). The move is in response to requests from organizations and (particularly) government agencies requesting interoperability