Microsoft tries to get creative
October 12th, 2007Microsoft has yet to establish for itself a reputation for not making billions from the ideas of others but judging from a US patent filing last July it looks as if the Redmond technology giant may have thrown caution to the wind and had an idea!
The patent is titled “Extensible filtered lists for mobile device user interface” and contains some diagrams. Now before you look at these please make sure you have nothing in your mouth first — I’d hate you to have to clean your monitor in order to see the other half of this post.
Now doesn’t that look a little familiar? Not got it yet? Here’s a clue:
And that’s not all. Here’s Microsoft’s totally-new-and-not-copied-of-anyone-else design for a voicemail interface:
And here’s something similar from … another technology company:
It looks like those nasty people at Apple may have stolen these ideas from right under Microsoft’s nose!
Bad luck, Microsoft!
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