Siliconera has uncovered a Microsoft patent which reveals that the company has been working on their own version of Nintendo’s Super Guide system that debuted in New Super Mario Bros. Wii. Instead of playing though the section of the game for you Microsoft’s system will recognize when a player is stuck and will pop up in-game

... X has told us about the following AP article, which is filled with quotes from Microsoft: “Technology companies care about this case because it will define what you can and cannot get a patent on,” said Emery Simon, counselor to the Business Software ... the entire package of the EU Community patent project. Microsoft uses its lobbying groups to promote the Community patent. ...

... dummies," which Graklaws writer calls it. The is a truth with modifications, the Microsoft solution does more than that. It also lists some users who have enough rights to perform the task. In ... distributions and apparently offer the same functionality. It depends partly on whether Microsoft intends to enforce the patent, or that the company only purpose is to block others from getting ...

Microsoft and Novell today are marking the third anniversary of what was, at the time it was announced, a surprising business and technical agreement bridging proprietary and open source software. The companies say they have signed up more than 475 joint customers under their partnership, which aims to make it easier to run Windows Server and SUSE Linux more smoothly together. That's up from ...

extremetech.com: The Internet was buzzing yesterday with news (apparently originated at Groklaw that had people in the know quivering with anxious anticipation: Microsoft had patented sudo, so could the end of the world be far behind? The real story, however, is far less salacious. Advertisement: read more

Righteous indignation erupted on the Internet last week following reports that Microsoft had patented sudo, a traditional command-line ... calls for evaluation of potential reforms, but we're not so sure that the Microsoft patent in question is as egregious as the critics claim. ... 's actual claims reveals that Microsoft's "invention" is really quite different from the sudo command- ...

... like Nintendo may have started a new one -- holding players' hands.  Siliconera recently dug up a Microsoft patent filing that appears to be its own answer to New Super Mario Bros. Wii' ... questions. How would this affect physical strategy guide business, and would Microsoft monetize this service in some way?  Ubisoft recently began offering a similar ...

... I saw a very interesting topic, which gains popularity like wildfire! It simply says that Microsoft have patented Sudo! This is a big blow to our Linux users, because we always use ... To obtain a patent your work should have new characteristic, should be unique. According to the patent document (as i understood) Microsoft have invented this idea in around 1997! But sudo was first implemented in 1980 ...

... patent application (hasn’t been awarded yet, I believe) from Microsoft bears stark resemblence (in both form and name) to Edward Tufte&# ... , Brian S. (Bellevue, WA, US) Meant to be included in Microsoft Excel as a new charting method, it’s left ... forum. What do you think? Sparklines for Excel: United States Patent Application 20090282325. Reach out to the community of Visualization ...

Microsoft has been granted a patent for the sudo command, because apparently you can patent a command that goes back to the mainframe days as long as you explain that ... a GUI. Groklaw has an explanation of the history of sudo and details about the patent, but it all boils down to this: Someone at the US Patent Office must've been snoozing when they approved this patent application. Either that ...