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[QUADICON]

You are ASSUMING Microsoft's whole buying of these patents is to go patent trolling just so they can sue someone?

I think you got your company's confused. That is what Apple is doing.

Look at the lawsuits Microsoft has on Android phone makers. What they are suing them for is not for Andorid itself, it is how the phone makers are using certain technoligies to make things work in Android that violates those patents. Microsoft patented concept long before these new guys entered the market.

How do you know MS didn't buy these new patents to finally bring some better ideas to IE?

Let's only accuse the company of something, when they actually become gulity of doing the act, not prior.

When Apple went and patented "slide-to-unlock", did you say Apple only intent was to go patent trolling?

[QUADICON]

If Microsoft really wanted to wage war against the mobile industry right now...and they wanted to go after every single player, all they have to do is sue every smartphone/tablet maker using this single patent right here -

http://www.google.co...id=d36fAAAAEBAJ

The patent shows elements of swiping the screen and heptic feedback and much more.

Microsoft could clean house with this patent.

You don't need 800 vagiuely written patents to wage a war, all you need is one good one and you can have everyone at your mercy.

Also, Netscape was an expensive POS browser. It was fast, until you installed the countless poorly written plugins, just to make it do what IE did out the box and was free. In fact even FireFox is slower than IE when you add all the plugins to make it do what IE does out the box. Of course the naysayers don't see it that way.

Also, those patent likely cover stuff that is over 15 years old and likely may not even be still in usage.

If we all remember history, Microsoft wanted to squash Netscape for a single major reason...which si the same with Java. The platforms can run in its on environment that would complete seperate it from Windows API's. Microsoft didn't want applications that didn't use Windows API's because these platforms could run there own applications without Windows being needed for the foundation. Thus making them more powerful on some level as they were not dependant on the OS. if you make a platform that si not dependant on the host, than the developer of the host application can't make any money.

All one has to do is read the findings by the DOJ on the lawsuit to see the real deal.

If Microsoft would have won this suit, applications like Flash would likely not exist as we know them today, as Flash doesn't require a Windows API to run...

[ipconsultant]

Your link was to the application, not the granted patent:
http://www.google.co...id=dZHJAAAAEBAJ

QUADICON, on 11 April 2012 - 08:04 AM, said:

If Microsoft really wanted to wage war against the mobile industry right now...and they wanted to go after every single player, all they have to do is sue every smartphone/tablet maker using this single patent right here -

http://www.google.co...id=d36fAAAAEBAJ

The patent shows elements of swiping the screen and heptic feedback and much more.

Microsoft could clean house with this patent.

You don't need 800 vagiuely written patents to wage a war, all you need is one good one and you can have everyone at your mercy.

Also, Netscape was an expensive POS browser. It was fast, until you installed the countless poorly written plugins, just to make it do what IE did out the box and was free. In fact even FireFox is slower than IE when you add all the plugins to make it do what IE does out the box. Of course the naysayers don't see it that way.

Also, those patent likely cover stuff that is over 15 years old and likely may not even be still in usage.

If we all remember history, Microsoft wanted to squash Netscape for a single major reason...which si the same with Java. The platforms can run in its on environment that would complete seperate it from Windows API's. Microsoft didn't want applications that didn't use Windows API's because these platforms could run there own applications without Windows being needed for the foundation. Thus making them more powerful on some level as they were not dependant on the OS. if you make a platform that si not dependant on the host, than the developer of the host application can't make any money.

All one has to do is read the findings by the DOJ on the lawsuit to see the real deal.

If Microsoft would have won this suit, applications like Flash would likely not exist as we know them today, as Flash doesn't require a Windows API to run...

[SandMansifw]

What happened to the days where innovation got you customers, not who had the most patents to sue with...

[bikdav]

Watch Windows 8 mobile blow Android into the bushes when it comes out.