Microsoft Patents OS Shutdown

Posted by CmdrTaco on Wednesday September 1, 2010 @04:05AM from the just-press-the-big-button dept.

An anonymous reader writes "You would think that shutting down software could be fairly simple from an end user's view. If I ask you to shut it down, would you mind shutting it actually down, please? Well, it's a bit more complicated than that, because you need to ask the user if they really want to shut down and if unsaved documents should be saved. And that warrants a patent that also covers Mac OS X. Next time you shut down Windows, remember how complicated it is for Windows to shut down. Perhaps that is the reason why this procedure can take minutes in some cases."

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Yet OSX shuts down much faster... by sottitron · 2010-09-01 04:14 · Score: 1, Flamebait

What is ironic is that Microsoft patents this, but my Mac running OS X 10.6 shuts down and off in literally 2 or 3 seconds, whereas Windows 7 on the same machine (and without virtualization) takes 15-20 seconds to shut down and off.
Re:Next thing... by V!NCENT · 2010-09-01 04:53 · Score: 0, Flamebait

The word patent is not a verb, dumbass.

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