Comments on: Microsoft’s Bing Lasso Beats Apple’s Copy And Paste Feature http://www.slashgear.com/microsofts-bing-lasso-beats-apples-copy-and-paste-feature-05163172/ Feeding Your Gadget and Tech Obsessions Mon, 24 Sep 2012 13:16:00 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5.1 By: Monkey D Black http://www.slashgear.com/microsofts-bing-lasso-beats-apples-copy-and-paste-feature-05163172/#comment-122093 Monkey D Black Sat, 09 Jul 2011 11:07:00 +0000 http://www.slashgear.com/?p=163172#comment-122093 lasso is a verb and cannot be patented neither by Adobe, Microsoft or anyone
plus lasso the word as a noun and verb has been in use way before any of those companies were created.

]]> By: Monkey D Black http://www.slashgear.com/microsofts-bing-lasso-beats-apples-copy-and-paste-feature-05163172/#comment-122094 Monkey D Black Sat, 09 Jul 2011 11:07:00 +0000 http://www.slashgear.com/?p=163172#comment-122094 lasso is a verb and cannot be patented neither by Adobe, Microsoft or anyone
plus lasso the word as a noun and verb has been in use way before any of those companies were created.

]]> By: Robert Norris Hills http://www.slashgear.com/microsofts-bing-lasso-beats-apples-copy-and-paste-feature-05163172/#comment-121616 Robert Norris Hills Wed, 06 Jul 2011 05:29:00 +0000 http://www.slashgear.com/?p=163172#comment-121616 Pretty sure the term Lasso is Adobes…

]]> By: Robert Norris Hills http://www.slashgear.com/microsofts-bing-lasso-beats-apples-copy-and-paste-feature-05163172/#comment-121617 Robert Norris Hills Wed, 06 Jul 2011 05:29:00 +0000 http://www.slashgear.com/?p=163172#comment-121617 Why apple didn’t do it this way? 

Simple answer: No1 else had done it for them to copy yet. 

]]> By: Anonymous http://www.slashgear.com/microsofts-bing-lasso-beats-apples-copy-and-paste-feature-05163172/#comment-121572 Anonymous Tue, 05 Jul 2011 22:41:00 +0000 http://www.slashgear.com/?p=163172#comment-121572 funny coinkydink that apple designers coined the term lasso when creating QuickDraw for the OG Mac..

]]> By: Anonymous http://www.slashgear.com/microsofts-bing-lasso-beats-apples-copy-and-paste-feature-05163172/#comment-121550 Anonymous Tue, 05 Jul 2011 20:26:00 +0000 http://www.slashgear.com/?p=163172#comment-121550 good job microsoft. expect to see this feature in Windows Phone in the furture.

]]> By: Anonymous http://www.slashgear.com/microsofts-bing-lasso-beats-apples-copy-and-paste-feature-05163172/#comment-121546 Anonymous Tue, 05 Jul 2011 19:22:00 +0000 http://www.slashgear.com/?p=163172#comment-121546 Wow, I’m surprised Apple let that through considering it is not their standard. Regardless whether Microsoft’s solution is better.

]]> By: Gabe M. http://www.slashgear.com/microsofts-bing-lasso-beats-apples-copy-and-paste-feature-05163172/#comment-121545 Gabe M. Tue, 05 Jul 2011 19:21:00 +0000 http://www.slashgear.com/?p=163172#comment-121545 nice! I think there was a version of lasso in those Courier tech demos from a while back. Looks like some features being implemented in their other products.

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