2024-11-01, 02:02 *
Welcome, Guest. Please login or register.

Login with username, password and session length
 
Wirehead Studios > General Discussion > Controversy Corner > Microsoft is at it again (This is beyond lame)
Pages: [1]
« previous next »
  Print  
Author Topic: Microsoft is at it again (This is beyond lame)  (Read 5877 times)
0 Members and 1 Guest are viewing this topic.
Phoenix
Bird of Fire
 

Team Member
Elite (7.5k+)
*********
Posts: 8814

WWW
« on: 2004-10-08, 08:41 »
http://www.internetnews.com/ent-news/artic...cle.php/3406551

Quote
Microsoft has been granted a patent from the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office on a process known as tabbing through a Web page in order to find links.

Although the patent award has raised the ire of some in the open source browser community, the implications for the widely used technique are unclear.

I could think of a thousand curses to describe what I think of this.  You all know why they're doing this, so I won't bother elaborating.  Feel free to rant.
Logged

I fly into the night, on wings of fire burning bright...
Footman
 

Beta Tester
Icon of Sin
***********
Posts: 784

WWW
« Reply #1 on: 2004-10-08, 13:29 »
Doesn't IE already support this?
Logged
Dicion
 

Team Member
Makron
*********
Posts: 353

WWW
« Reply #2 on: 2004-10-08, 15:32 »
I wonder If I can file for a patent on the process known as ''pushing small rectangular squares on a horizontal board in order to produce words on a computer screen'
Logged
scalliano
 

Elite
*
Posts: 1095

Yup, that's me
« Reply #3 on: 2004-10-08, 18:10 »
duh
Logged
PSN ID: scalliano

The Arena knows no gender, colour or creed, only skill.
BiGRoB85
 
Gladiator
***
Posts: 69
« Reply #4 on: 2004-10-08, 19:16 »
I think it pretty much goes without saying that this is probably one of the dumbest things that Microsoft has ever done.
Logged
-BigRob85

(Not so) Proudly turning dual gats into BFGs since 2004!
Pages: [1]
  Print  
« previous next »
 
Jump to: