The Run dialog box in explorer is hidden. To this day, there is no export for it from any shared library, and is still often evoked by creating a function pointer to the address and calling it.
The Shutdown dialog is another one
Have you looked at the documentation for ShellExecuteEx and ExitWindowsEx? These do pretty much everything that can be achieved through the Run or Shutdown dialogs.
If you really are a "shell developer," wouldn't you want to write your own UI to present these options to the users, making use of the functionality that the underlying APIs provide? Or is this so-called shell you're working on merely just another bit of eye candy that in no way brings forth any innovations in how the user interacts with the computer?
IIRC Intel dropped their x86 numbering scheme after AMD had their contractual right to the blueprints of all x86 processor designs affirmed in court. "Pentium" has no such number, therefore is exempt.
No, Intel switched to names from numbers due to the fact that the courts ruled that "x86" was too generic to be trademarked. Pentium, on the other hand, clearly could be.
The court battles with AMD were over various cross-licensing agreements. The names Intel used in no way affected the rights AMD had under those agreements.
1. Have you looked at the patents referenced, or have you merely decided that they're "obvious" based on the titles? 2. Did you even bother to look at the dates for the patents that you quote? I'd imagine that both of these patents were issued well before you were even born...
I'd be quite amazed if the SEC didn't let this happen, given that it doesn't have the legal right to block mergers. The only government organizations that have a say in this are the FCC (Telecom. Act), Justice (Hart-Scott-Rodino), and the FTC (Hart-Scott-Rodino).
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The Run dialog box in explorer is hidden. To this day, there is no export for it from any shared library, and is still often evoked by creating a function pointer to the address and calling it.
The Shutdown dialog is another one
Have you looked at the documentation for ShellExecuteEx and ExitWindowsEx? These do pretty much everything that can be achieved through the Run or Shutdown dialogs.
If you really are a "shell developer," wouldn't you want to write your own UI to present these options to the users, making use of the functionality that the underlying APIs provide? Or is this so-called shell you're working on merely just another bit of eye candy that in no way brings forth any innovations in how the user interacts with the computer?
No, Intel switched to names from numbers due to the fact that the courts ruled that "x86" was too generic to be trademarked. Pentium, on the other hand, clearly could be.
The court battles with AMD were over various cross-licensing agreements. The names Intel used in no way affected the rights AMD had under those agreements.
1. Have you looked at the patents referenced, or have you merely decided that they're "obvious" based on the titles? 2. Did you even bother to look at the dates for the patents that you quote? I'd imagine that both of these patents were issued well before you were even born...
I'd be quite amazed if the SEC didn't let this happen, given that it doesn't have the legal right to block mergers. The only government organizations that have a say in this are the FCC (Telecom. Act), Justice (Hart-Scott-Rodino), and the FTC (Hart-Scott-Rodino).