Microsoft Receives Patent For Double-Click
 

The Sydney Morning Herald is reporting that Microsoft was granted a patent for double-clicking on April 27. The patent in question is 6,727,830 and says, amongst other stuff: 'A default function for an application is launched if the button is pressed for a short, i.e., normal, period of time. An alternative function of the application is launched if the button is pressed for a long, (e.g., at least one second), period of time. Still another function can be launched if the application button is pressed multiple times within a short period of time, e.g., double click'. So this is what we have to look foward to in the E.U. now?

http://www.smh.com.au/articles/2004/...058889577.html

I just patented breathing, would you mind not doing it or i'll sue you

microsoft invented double click?

they didnt even invent GUI.

single button mac mice always been double click

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They got patent for instant messaging too ... ICQ invented it .

i was "chatting" online 6 years before i ever installed ICQ

:1orglaugh

obviously no one in the patent office has ever been remotely near the internet.

As I did ... but im talking about ICQ style ... with a ID to another etc .

Duuuuuh ... just go see acacia ... or microsoft is paying somebody a lot of money in there ! lol