On Tue, 2004-08-10 at 09:54, Thom Paine wrote: > Isn't this GMail's claim to fame? > So MS owns Google now? > > On Tue, 2004-08-10 at 09:48, Rui Miguel Seabra wrote: > > Searches will extend > > across all data like e-mail, photos, Word. "We're creating things," > > he says. You forgot, Microsoft is laying the ground work to patent all of these ideas. So in 2007 when the patent is granted they can come back and extort all those companies that have implemented and been using the concepts for all these years. It's all about prior art. Now Microsoft can point to that memo and claim prior art. -- Scot L. Harris <webid@xxxxxxxxxx>
