Browser Suit Spurs Microsoft to Change IE

"Microsoft Corp. is planning to alter its market-leading Internet Explorer Web browser as a result of a recent $521 million browser-patent verdict against it.

'Microsoft has indicated to W3C [Worldwide Web Consortium] that they will very soon be making changes to its Internet Explorer browser software in response to this ruling,' wrote W3C Chief Operating Officer Steven R. Bratt in a notice posted on the Web standards body's Web site. The changes could affect 'a large number of existing Web pages,' he wrote.

Earlier this month, a federal jury in Chicago ruled in favor of Eolas Technologies Inc. and the University of California, which claimed that Microsoft infringed on their patent for technology that allows interactive applications such as 'plug-ins' and 'applets' to be embedded in Web pages."

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