Will Microsoft tweak IE?

I thought this was interesting because I recently heard that Microsoft never planned to update Internet Explorer anymore. Guess that might not be the case due to some lawsuits. Anyway:

Microsoft told the Web's leading standards body that it's considering making changes to its Internet Explorer browser in light of a recent ruling against the company in a patent infringement lawsuit.

The World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) issued a statement Thursday indicating that Microsoft is mulling its options after a federal court earlier this month found that plug-ins and applets in Internet Explorer (IE) infringed on patents held by Eolas Technologies and the University of California. The software giant was ordered to pay $521 million to the Web technology company and the university.

"In the near term, Microsoft has indicated to the W3C that they will very soon be making changes to its Internet Explorer browser software in response to this ruling," Steven R. Bratt, chief operating officer of the W3C, said in a statement. "These changes may affect a large number of existing Web pages."

See the whole story here:

http://news.com.com/2100-1012_3-5069943.html?tag=fd_ots

521 million?!?!

chump change to them, but that's a crap-load of money