Microsoft Frowned at For Smiley Patent

By Stephen Downes - Stephen's Web. Microsoft Frowned at For Smiley Patent
With people already raising their eyebrows at the renaming of Longhorn to Microsoft Vista (people especially including those with companies named Vista or products named Vista) the Redmond software company poured oil onto the fire with the news that it is patenting the creation of custom emoticons (aka smileys). More...