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Patent fun: Microsoft Word sales banned in the US

Patent fun: Microsoft Word sales banned in the US

Posted Aug 12, 2009 16:17 UTC (Wed) by Yorick (guest, #19241)
In reply to: Patent fun: Microsoft Word sales banned in the US by job
Parent article: Patent fun: Microsoft Word sales banned in the US

To the best of my knowledge, it is indeed how .docx works. It cannot be all there is to it, because
I am fairly sure that idea is not new at all (what about old MacOS SimpleText files - didn't they
put all the mark-up in the resource fork, keeping plain text in the data fork?)


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Patent fun: Microsoft Word sales banned in the US

Posted Aug 12, 2009 16:28 UTC (Wed) by tzafrir (subscriber, #11501) [Link]

The claims refer to a "menu" (some graphical user interface?) to access the information encoded by the metadata.

Patent fun: Microsoft Word sales banned in the US

Posted Sep 9, 2009 15:48 UTC (Wed) by SEMW (guest, #52697) [Link]

A quick look into a docx file doesn't really seem to support that. True, document metadata, images, charts, etc. are all spread over dozens of files in various folders, but the file which contains the actual document text (document.xml) is still heavily loaded with xml tags.


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