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Microsoft Patents Your Local Weather Report

Posted by timothy on from the ask-your-local-ueber-monkeys dept.

theodp writes "After a seven year wait, Microsoft was granted a patent Tuesday for the Customization of network documents by accessing customization information on a server computer using unique user identifiers, patent lawyer-speak for using preferences stored on a server for such purposes as "displaying stock quotes for the companies in which the user is interested, and displaying the user's local weather report.""

2 of 437 comments (clear)

  1. WE ARE SLASHBOT! M$ SUX0RZ! PAT3NTZ R TEH LAEM!!1 by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    *sigh* Too bad the bots will have a field day with this one and not even get a clue about the truth. Oh well. You hit the nail on the head.

  2. Re:WE ARE SLASHBOT! M$ SUX0RZ! PAT3NTZ R TEH LAEM! by Call+Me+Black+Cloud · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Pak chooie.