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Originally Posted by Cristiano  So the EU is once again going after big bad Microsoft, responding to a complaint by Opera Software that including a web browser in Windows hurts competition. They are investigating Microsoft for anti-trust violations for including Internet Explorer with Windows. I'm sure some ridiculous fine will certainly follow. EU regulating Microsoft like it's 1999 | Microsoft - CNET News
Here we go again. Never mind that anyone can download and use whatever browser they want, or that other OSes include browsers as well. Firefox has not had to resort to cheap legal tactics to try to compete - Opera is just pissed that no matter what they do, their browser remains a niche product. |
This is awful, just awful.
How could the EU go after Microsoft, a company with a proud tradition of competing on the quality of its software alone? Has it really got to the point where those godless-commies at the EU are willing to vindictively assault the company that gave us PageUp and PageDown keys !!!!!!11111!!!!!!! :
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Microsoft has been granted a patent on 'Page Up' and 'Page Down' keystrokes.
The software giant applied for the patent in 2005, and was granted it on August 19, 2008. US patent number 7,415,666 describes "a method and system in a document viewer for scrolling a substantially exact increment in a document, such as one page, regardless of whether the zoom is such that some, all or one page is currently being viewed".
The patent's listed 'inventors' are Timothy Sellers, Heather Grantham and Joshua Dersch. However, Page Up and Page Down keyboard buttons have been in existence for at least quarter of a century, as evidenced by this image of a 1981 IBM PC keyboard.
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Microsoft patents 'Page Up' and 'Page Down' | Tech News on ZDNet)