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Microsoft Wins HTML App Patent

Posted by timothy on from the portfolio-whiplash dept.

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. Microsoft's Legal Team... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    Is, suprisingly, only made up of two people.

    1. Re:Microsoft's Legal Team... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

      I want to see a Saturday morning cartoon for kids starring Goatse Man as he fights his arch nemesis, Tubgirl! I'm sure we could get Nickelodeon to air it. Then when the kids are hooked, we start the MERCHANDISING! Goatse Man TV-Dinner Trays and Tubgirl Action Fun Lawn Sprinklers! OK I'm done.

  2. Defensive Patent? by donutello · · Score: 1, Troll

    Remember the case where Microsoft is getting sued by that company who claims to hold the patent on browser plugins?

    If Microsoft wouldn't patent this, what are the chances that someone else would and sue them for patent infringement? It's quite possible that this is just a defensive patent to prevent stuff like that.

    What the hell am I thinking?! This is Slashdot. We don't give MS the benefit of the doubt. Ever.

    --
    Mmmm.. Donuts
  3. Re:It doesn't bother me! by Nedmud · · Score: 0, Troll

    To that I say, you should try writing a program in binary (I assume you mean machine code) at least once: it will do you good as a programmer.

    My point wasn't that VB was a good language to use *for anything*, in fact I said it was a horrible language.

    My point was that VB is actually a real programming language. It is not directly comparable to binary, because it is an abstraction of a imperative computational model, just as is C, Java, Perl, and all other high-level imperative languages.

    Binary is not (at least not to nearly the same extent as all the above).

  4. Re:It doesn't bother me! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    Secondly, by binary I mean the actual 1s and 0s, not assembly. Assembly is hard, but useful. Binary is just hard.

    uh, yeah. (-1, Stupid)

    He said *machine code*, which is binary. (yes, actual 1s and 0s.) no one said anything about assembly.

    if you don't know the difference between machine code and assembly, please stop talking; you're not adding anything useful.