Microsoft Files "Emergency Motion" To Ship Word

adeelarshad82 writes "Several days after a judge ordered Microsoft to halt sales of Word and handed down $290M in fines, the software giant has moved to stop the ban. On Friday Microsoft filed an emergency motion to stop the judgment and waive the bond requirement, according to court filings. The actual document was filed under seal, so the full contents of the request have not yet been made public."

I figure that

[Winckle]

the sealed bond is just the publicly available document and the rest is just stuffed with $100 bills.

Re:I figure that

[DrLang21]

and cocaine [slashdot.org]

I have a feeling

[Reason58]

In this case it appears that the courts will not have the last word.

I wonder if...

[Jahava]

I wonder if the request was delivered as a Word document.

Re:I have a feeling

[Reason58]

Getting their way is something Microsoft excels at. It is easy when you have access to their resources and the outlook to dominate any market they enter.

Powerpoint.

What was filed under seal

[Nom du Keyboard]

What was filed under seal:

Dear Judge, The world will end if we can't continue shipping Word.

Re:I have a feeling

[jaavaaguru]

Word.

I think it was more like this:

[CorporateSuit]

The current location of your daughter is in the attached file. Unfortunately for you, this file can only be read by the latest software version of Word we're commercially releasing next week.

--
File attached: clownfart.wdoc

Re:I have a feeling

[NervousNerd]

Yeah, I took one note for this project I have. I'm going to take it to my publisher who has the information to deliver that info on the right path.

Re:I figure that

[InsertWittyNameHere]

From the filing:

"Okay, maybe my we did steal XML, but so what? Computer software is built on plagiarism! If it weren't for someone plagiarizing Xerox, we wouldn't have Windows 3.1! If someone hadn't ripped off Apple, there'd be no Vista! iPod, Zune, XBOX? Google, Bing, MSN Live. Your honor, if you take away our right to steal ideas, where are they gonna come from?"

Re:I have a feeling

[ColdWetDog]

Bob

Re:You reap what you sow

[Grishnakh]

If you know a contractor that's been arrested many, many times for ripping off his clients, stealing their stuff from their homes when he's entrusted to do jobs in them, etc., has been in the news for that, and has even ripped off your next-door neighbor, would you hire that contractor to work in your home? If you did, I would call you stupid, and I actually would say that you deserved to be ripped off for your stupidity.

It's the same thing with MS. Every company that works with them is burned.