Potential bad news to start out the week for Microsofties: a judge from the US International Trade Commission has issued a preliminary ruling that finds that five of Microsoft's Xbox 360 patents infringe on those of Motorola's. While the decision is by no means final -- which means that the Redmond outfit could ultimately prevail -- a permanent ruling would force Microsoft's hand to seek proper licenses for the technologies, most of which relate to H.264 video encoding. Now it goes back to the lawyers to present t
