Despite having said that a recent court ruling would not disrupt its sales of Office, Microsoft pulled copies of the software from its own website yesterday.
The Vole had said it would release a version of Office that did not contain the custom XML features that a court has ruled it nicked from Canadian software house i4i and therefore would have to stop selling. However it is clear that Microsoft didn't make the new version of Office ready in time to sell at its own store. According to Computerworld, yesterday the Vole had to pull almost every version of Office from its online store to comply with the court order.
The only edition available from the Microsoft Store was Office Ultimate 2007, a $670 "full-version" suite. Attempts to access all other Windows editions, as well as Office 2008 for Mac, were met with the message, "This product is currently unavailable while we update versions on our site. We expect it to be available soon."
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