@justinpe its not the idea of scrolling horizontally and vertically, and if you want to go that way. many products have been doing it for years BEFORE Apple.
They are trying to patient the concept of have a continous background with media and overlaying text that extend the window of the screen, thus bleeding out of the screen, which is something no other company has done to the extent MSFT has. Stop trying to post bullshit arguments when you know perfectly well what the patient is for by reading the article.
@abedinthehouse OK then, they are basically patenting a simple design element in their UI. Text that flows off the screen. Genius! Almost as original as having a non-replaceable battery or no multi-tasking, or copy/paste... Give me a break.
@abedinthehouse "its not the idea of scrolling horizontally and vertically...[it's] the concept of have a continuous background with media and overlaying text that extend the window of the screen..."
In other words, it's the concept of horizontal or vertical scrolling. I can think of a number of user interfaces going back to 1985 that support scrolling the background/desktop with windows extending off the screen. Old news.
Sounds like Microsoft trying to capitalize on collective IT forgetfulness, or just the plain stupidity of the USPTO. That's also another bit of old news.
personally i don't think they should be able to patent simply having a contiguous background with elements that run offscreen or whatever. that's something anyone could think of. what they should be able to patent is how they implement it, i.e., how and when to render things for a UI like this.
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I wasn't aware that scrolling horizontally or vertically could be patented. iPhone has been doing this since 2007.
@justinpe Software patents are dumb. You're (if possible) even more!
@justinpe
its not the idea of scrolling horizontally and vertically, and if you want to go that way. many products have been doing it for years BEFORE Apple.
They are trying to patient the concept of have a continous background with media and overlaying text that extend the window of the screen, thus bleeding out of the screen, which is something no other company has done to the extent MSFT has. Stop trying to post bullshit arguments when you know perfectly well what the patient is for by reading the article.
@justinpe wow! vertical scroll and horizontal scroll since 2007? MINDBLOWING!
@abedinthehouse
But that implies that he read the article.
@HaZaRd
But that implies he 'can' read.
@abedinthehouse
OK then, they are basically patenting a simple design element in their UI. Text that flows off the screen. Genius! Almost as original as having a non-replaceable battery or no multi-tasking, or copy/paste... Give me a break.
@abedinthehouse "its not the idea of scrolling horizontally and vertically...[it's] the concept of have a continuous background with media and overlaying text that extend the window of the screen..."
In other words, it's the concept of horizontal or vertical scrolling. I can think of a number of user interfaces going back to 1985 that support scrolling the background/desktop with windows extending off the screen. Old news.
Sounds like Microsoft trying to capitalize on collective IT forgetfulness, or just the plain stupidity of the USPTO. That's also another bit of old news.
@justinpe
personally i don't think they should be able to patent simply having a contiguous background with elements that run offscreen or whatever. that's something anyone could think of. what they should be able to patent is how they implement it, i.e., how and when to render things for a UI like this.
U.S. seriously needs patent reform.
@justinpe
So where did it said that Windows Phone 7 wouldn't have replacable battery.
Bing it