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Sure, there are slight differences, and maybe they add up to enough of a difference for a lawsuit to not be possible, but it looks almost exactly the same. The patents were filed in July, shortly after the release of the iPhone, coincidence? I think not.
We could see it in a new Zune Phone, maybe the next version of Windows Mobile, so the iPhones competitors can come out with something that truly looks and works almost exactly like the iPhone. That’s probably the only way they’ll give the iPhone any competition is to copy it almost exactly.
So should Microsoft get the Originality Award of the Year? No, not ever, didn’t they do this same crap with Vista? So I suppose you can expect their wannabe iPhone OS to have several bugs and errors in it as well making it unusable until at least service pack 1, I see a pattern here.
Microsoft Phone Patent Looks Just Like the iPhone [via gizmodo]
2 Responses to “Microsoft patents look unchangingly like the iPhone interface”
Wayne October 12, 2007
Copying Apple is how Microsoft came up with Windows. If it worked for them before, why not do it again and again (Zune, now ZunePhone)?
Apple products are better-designed and easier to use. Microsoft and Sony better hope that Apple doesn’t decide to enter the game console market.
-2UtahSaint October 13, 2007
Apple stole their interface from Xerox, so why shouldnt Microsoft steal it from apple?
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