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| Authored by: Anonymous on Wednesday, October 31 2012 @ 01:35 PM EDT |
| If you thought Microsoft innovated think again it is so much easier to just
steal it
Clicky for story [ Reply to This | Parent | # ]
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| Authored by: eric76 on Wednesday, October 31 2012 @ 07:23 PM EDT |
Unless I'm missing something, there should be plenty of prior art to consider
(unless, of course, you have a certain jury foreman to contend with).
WindowMaker predates the patent. It has some applets that are displayed as
buttons. I don't know whether they are in the original version of WindowMaker,
though. Before that there was NeXTSTEP that predates the patent by more than a
decade with buttons that look pretty much the same.
Maybe this is what we need, though. Instead of Microsoft claiming that they
invented it and trying to push everyone else around, they will need to do the
opposite and prove that the concept has been around for a long time.[ Reply to This | Parent | # ]
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| Authored by: Anonymous on Wednesday, October 31 2012 @ 11:31 PM EDT |
Would this have implications for Apple and Android, not to speak of Canonical's
Unity interface?
What about the Sugar WM (OLPC user interface)?
And, by the way, HTML-authors have used merged cells in tables and <div>
and <span> tags to make coloured/framed tiles for navigating web-pages
practically since day #1.
I don't know when day #1 is exactly, but I'm pretty sure it pre-dates the patent
grant.[ Reply to This | Parent | # ]
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| Authored by: Anonymous on Thursday, November 01 2012 @ 02:54 AM EDT |
If only the live tiles would present information in an "unobtrusive
manner", they could get a license from Interval ;-).[ Reply to This | Parent | # ]
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