A followup article gives the result: code not copied but APIs used. http://www.marketwired.com/press-release/zeidman-consulting-concludes-that-microsoft-did-no

A followup article gives the result: code not copied but APIs used. http://www.marketwired.com/press-release/zeidman-consulting-concludes-that-microsoft-did-not-copy-cp-m-code-but-did-copy-system-2148758.htm http://www.marketwired.com/press-release/zeidman-consulting-... Whether APIs can be protected is the core of long legal feud between Oracle-Sun and Google over Java APIs used in Android.