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Microsoft Wins HTML App Patent

crataegus writes "'Microsoft on Tuesday won a patent for launching a certain kind of HTML application within Windows. The patent, "Method and apparatus for writing a Windows application in HTML" (Hypertext Markup Language), describes Microsoft's way of opening up HTML applications in a window free of navigation and other interface elements, known as "chrome," and browser security restrictions.' Why does this sound vaguely familiar?"

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  1. PENIS! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    PENIS PENIS PENIS PENIS PENIS!

    Lameness filter encountered. Post aborted!
    Reason: Don't use so many caps. It's like PENIS. PENIS PENIS PENIS PENIS PENIS!

    This is First Post #4 for me today!

  2. I have a patent on First Posts. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    All you people getting fps owe me $5 per fp. Thank you.

    1. Re:I have a patent on First Posts. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

      All you people getting fps owe me $5 per fp. Thank you.

      Yeah, but I have the patent on missing fp by two or more. Pay up, sucka.

    2. Re:I have a patent on First Posts. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

      Maybe you should patent FAILING IT instead.

  3. Bill Gates is the devil by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    And GWB like his anal starfish

  4. Re:Companies Today by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    SCO doesn't collect patent royalties on anything and they only have two patents.

  5. LOL d00d U R TEH GHEY SPOKE!!!!! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    wang

  6. no, by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    iguana scrotum

  7. great by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    mod me down and let the "wang" guy live. that is SO unfair!

  8. spammers delight by fermion · · Score: 0, Offtopic
    Today MS announced products intended to help the struggling and much maligned spammer. These tool, name Longhorns Up The Ass, are expected to be incorporated into all future security updates.

    The key to LutA are tools that can be downloaded as a normal web page, then run as an local application. Once the application is launched, it will continue to run in it's own window until the process is manually killed. It is assumed that other processes may be periodically be created, or the system otherwise modified, so that a restart will be required to stop all processes, and a system reinstall necessary to remove all autoruns.

    A famous spammer out of Florida, who we interviewed in his trailer home, and who wished to remain anonymous, had this to say. "We have been real disappointed in MS lately. They have been modifying Outlook to make it harder for us to get viruses through. The have telling users not to open unknown emails. They have even said they will block pop ups. For a hard working guy like me, with three ex-wives, 7 children, a mistress, not mention that I am putting two titty dances through college, I just can't make enough money.

    "I was losing faith. But this new stuff, this will be great. It will be in Windows. That damn open source commie crap won't be able to block it. I can work with Gator and Kazaa so that I can run banner ads, gateways, porn web servers, whatever, on the mark's machines. I might just be able to start moving these small breast disease remedires again."

    It is not know if MS itself will use these tools for marketing purposes. It is thought that sales to spam organizations and other organized crime outfits were on the decline, and such a tool was necessary to convince them not to support user migration to other platforms.

    --
    "She's a scientist and a lesbian. She's not going to let it slide." Orphan Black
  9. This just in...breaking news... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Slashdot editors discover c/net news.com. More details in 5 minutes when they find another c/net story to leech. Please discuss.

  10. Re:Good to see by greygent · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    No, most people aren't. Point me to any philanthropist either:

    a.) giving as much to charity as bill gates
    b.) A billionaire giving as high of a percentage of their total worth as Bill Gates.

  11. Re:need to copy by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Not unlike the way Microsoft travelled into the future and stole all the ideas from XPCOM then travelled back to the past to implement COM. The bastards.

    I amazed at how little you pissant, open source flunkies actually know about the software industry.

  12. This is really good news! by ArrayIndexOutOfBound · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Hopes are growing that UN will indeed take over from ICANN. To see why this is so good, just remember what veris.gn did few months ago... ICANN was slow to react and the reaction was silly. With UN, the service will be *regulated* and governed better.