September 23 has been set as the the date for Microsoft’s appeal for the i4i XML patent infringement case. Microsoft are “confident” of their appeal but so is the chairman of i4i. It will be interesting hearing Microsoft’s excuses and I can’t wait for the fallout if i4i wins the decision.

Microsoft have been banned from selling, offering to sell, using, instructing or encouraging anyone to use, providing support or assistance, testing, demonstrating, or marketing Microsoft Word to access any XML document. This will come into affect because they have been found to infringe the US patent of i4i (# 5787449) by Judge Leonard Davis, of [...]

I had a customer bring in an iMac G5 20″ (OS X 10.4) and new MacBook (OS X 10.5) to the office this evening because they live 45 km out of town so they only have dialup Internet access. The Mac OS X updates for each system were around 600 MB, which is basically impossible [...]