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Asked: 2026-05-10T18:06:20+00:00

I like the simplistic look and design of some of the Microsoft blogs. Alas,

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I like the simplistic look and design of some of the Microsoft blogs. Alas, I can’t join the Microsoft dev party and create my own development blog on the blogs.msdn.com page because I don’t work at Microsoft, and I already have my own wordpress blog.

I was looking to have my blog styled to one of the default looking themes shown here: http://blogs.msdn.com/jmeier/default.aspx

Could Microsoft take legal action against me if I used a stylesheet from their page? If I made my page ‘based’ off their stylesheet, e.g. written from the ground up, would that be copyright infringement?

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  1. Could Microsoft take legal action against me if I used a stylesheet from their page?

    Absolutely, since you infringed their copyright. On the other hand, it’s debatable whether the stylesheet alone constitues a sufficient threshold of originality to justify legal actions1. At the least, taking without asking is often considered rude. 😉

    1) No. It certainly doesn’t. A sophisticated design however will.

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