"Live Documents copies the Office 2007 interface and feature set. Bhatia says his company, InstaColl, spent four years “break[ing] Microsoft’s code so that they could replicate it online,” according to a report in the London Times. The Bangalore-based, SoftBank-backed company, which is not lacking in chutzpah, thanks Microsoft itself for paving the legal way for the clone: “InstaColl said that it was not infringing copyright because of a legal ruling that concluded that it was not possible to patent the ‘look and feel’ of a computer interface. Microsoft itself was instrumental in setting the precedent. In 1994, it won a lawsuit brought by Apple for copying graphics from the Macintosh operating systems for use in Windows."

— Nicholas Carr, India’s online Office knockoff