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Microsoft, Dell and Hewlett-Packard solidarity with the common fight against i4i, as Microsoft’s largest customer, Dell and Hewlett-Packard also asked the court to reconsider the ruling, at least the ban should be extended to 120 days, in accordance with the current ruling, Word ban from mid-October start entered into force.

In March 2007 and headquartered in Toronto, Canada i4i company sued Microsoft, accusing Microsoft Word product features provided by XML documents violated i4i patents, the U.S. District Court in Texas in August this year, Microsoft ruling Word in the i4i prosecution of infringement cases in the XML document loses, Microsoft needs to stop in the United States within 60 days of the sale of all features, including XML documents Word products, and imposed a fine of nearly 290 million U.S. dollars.

Dell said in a statement: “The Court adopted the ban for Microsoft Word impact far beyond the scope of Microsoft, Microsoft Word is a popular word-processing software and were pre-installed on Dell computers.” In addition, Dell also expounded Word the ban will have on its impact of the ban comes into effect if the Dell will be how to rebuild their own products, as well as how long it takes before they can fully adapt to the ban.

Microsoft has submitted an emergency motion asking the court to delay implementation of the Word ban, the United States federal appeals court in Washington has agreed to hold in the September 23 hearing to hear Microsoft’s appeal.