On Thursday, Donald Trump will walk into the Great Hall of the People in Beijing, shake Xi Jinping's hand, and declare it a great meeting. There will be announcements. There will be numbers — billions of dollars in Chinese purchase commitments, a new bilateral mechanism with an important-sounding name, possibly a joint statement on Iran. Trump will post on Truth Social. Markets will rally briefly. Pundits will argue about who won. None of that will tell you what actually happened. What is actually happening in Beijing this week is something more consequential and more uncomfortable than the summit theatre will reveal: two leaders of two deeply mutually dependent superpowers, both of whom need this meeting to succeed for entirely different reasons, sitting across a table in a world that has already moved past the assumptions that defined their last nine months of negotiations. The Iran war changed the equations. The rare earth gambit changed the power balance. Taiwan is sitting in...
Headlines likes these have been grabbing people's attention online "Microsoft ordered to stop selling word in 2010". Well not entirely true. The story so far goes like this. On Tuesday a judge's injunction was issued after a district court jury found that a feature in word 2007, and the office 2007 suite that includes word infringed a patent that was held by i4i. A Toronto software developer. "The feature in question governs how programs deal with a specialized data format called XML , short for extensible markup language. It's arguable, as Computerworld writer Steven J. Vaughan-Nichols writes, that i4i never should have received this patent in the first place. But there also seems to be solid evidence that Microsoft knew about i4i's work before adding these features to Word." Microsoft has said that they have put the wheels in motion to remove that little used feature before the Jan 11 deadline. Microsoft further said that Word 2010 and Office 2010 ...