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Visual Studio Users Should Fear No Lawsuit

Dell, FedEx and Allstate are all Visual Studio users and are all being sued by WebXchange, a company that claims to own e-comm technology that's implemented in a similar way by the Microsoft IDE.

Microsoft is suing back, trying to protect these three rather large customers. Hopefully, this will all get settled soon.

Posted by Doug Barney on November 24, 2008


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