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Posted by Steven Bink January 20, 2006 3:22 PM with 6 comment(s)
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Microsoft "Volume license" customers in Europe received this message:

It was recently decided in a court of law that certain portions of code found in Microsoft Office Professional Edition 2003, Microsoft Office Access 2003, Microsoft Office XP Professional and Microsoft Access 2002 infringe a third-party patent. As a result, Microsoft must make available a revised version of these products with the allegedly infringing code replaced.

Action required: 
As a result of the above ruling, you are required to: 
Install Microsoft Office 2003 Service Pack 2 (Office 2003 SP2) for all your future deployments of Office Professional Edition 2003 and Office Access 2003,
Install the Microsoft Office XP Service Pack 3 Patch (Office XP SP3 Patch) for all your future deployments of Office XP Professional and Access 2002
 
Action requested: 
To keep your current systems in alignment with your future deployments of these products, Microsoft is requesting that you also update all your current Office Professional Edition 2003 and Office Access 2003 installations with Office 2003 SP2, and Office XP Professional and Access 2002 installations with the Office XP SP3 Patch.

How do I do this?: 
You can obtain both Office 2003 SP2 and the Office XP SP3 Patch by going to the website listed below and downloading it directly, or by contacting your reseller.
 

 

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Mohammed_MAM said:

omg , [:O]
January 20, 2006 4:32 PM
 

GoodThings2Life said:

OK, umm... how, exactly, can this be considered a "required" action on the part of users/customers? Don't get me wrong, I've been doing this already since the release of SP2, but I don't really see how a court or a company can force it. If a customer isn't willing to upgrade to 2003 SP2, then they probably don't care about the benefits of the security patches and performance increase, etc etc whatever.
January 20, 2006 7:43 PM
 

schwit said:

Europe only, it appears.
January 20, 2006 8:32 PM
 

edman said:

Does anyone have any documentation on the impact to users for this?  I'd hate to install SP2 for Office and have a user say "My program doesnt work anymore you broke it"!

 

Eman

January 25, 2006 4:32 PM
 

Jacques11 said:

August 23, 2006 5:14 AM
 

Natural Penis Enlargement said:

Does anyone have any documentation on the impact to users for this?  I'd hate to install SP2 for Office and have a user say "My program doesnt work anymore you broke it"!
I believe you can find it from SE.
October 6, 2006 6:34 AM

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