Ad Hoc Meeting on US Patent 5,838,906: Microsoft recently lost a patent dispute and is making changes to IE as a result (this, after they announced IE was frozen). The W3C posted this notice, with an ominous warning:
“… Microsoft has indicated to W3C that they will very soon be making changes to its Internet Explorer browser software in response to this ruling. These changes may affect a large number of existing Web pages.”
Microsoft loses $521 million verdict over browser patent "A federal jury in Chicago awarded the University of California and a browser technology company $521 million after finding that their patents were infringed by Microsoft Corp."