Star Patent: Application-Specific Windows Colourisation
Linked by Thom Holwerda on Mon 8th Sep 2008 23:23 UTC
Graphics, User Interfaces The US patent might be a bit daft, especially when it comes to software, but it does offer some interesting insights into what crazy things the big companies might be working on for future products. One such patent emerged today: Microsoft applied in 2005 (and was granted in 2008) a patent which describes how different windows may be coloured differently, or that they may have different transparency settings. This sounds a bit weird, but it may actually prove to be quite useful.
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Irritating
by matthekc on Tue 9th Sep 2008 00:03 UTC
matthekc
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2006-10-28

While being annoyed by the obviousness of the patent and the breadth of the prior art I think my hair began to fall out and recede faster

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RE: Irritating
by kajaman on Tue 9th Sep 2008 05:57 in reply to "Irritating"
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2006-01-06

Well, american software patents (ans software patents in general) could be funny if they were not so scary.

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