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Licensing the Office 2007 UI - what is Microsoft's IP strategy?

Jensen Harris announced that the Office 2007 Ribbon UI can be licensed . For the last year or so, one of the questions I've been asked again and again has been: "Can I use the new Office user interface in my own product?" I have to be honest - I'm a bit baffled at this whole thing. Note, they are not...

Posted to Tim Marman's Loosely Coupled (Weblog) by Tim on 11-27-2006
Gartner sends a cease and desist to remove a link

Scoble passes along that James Governor, an analyst for RedMonk, received a C&D from Gartner for a link . Wow. I obviously haven't seen the letter, but I'm trying to imagine what possible legal recourse they have to linking to a publicly visible URL. Obviously there's no copyright infringement and...

Posted to Tim Marman's Loosely Coupled (Weblog) by Tim on 07-11-2006
Absurd Legal Fees?

Microsoft gets a bill for $258M for legal fees. Read more here . I haven't seen anyone discuss this on the “blawgs” yet, but I am interested to hear what they say. Sure seems a bit excessive to me... What gets me most is the $1,000 an hour for “administrative work” (which I presume...

Posted to Tim Marman's Loosely Coupled (Weblog) by Tim on 05-15-2004

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