Microsoft just received confirmation of a patent that hands the company the intellectual property of shutting an operating system down.
I can’t quite recall how often Microsoft has talked about a faster way to shut down its operating system. It is part of the pitch of virtually every new operating system and it has remained an annoyance that it can take quite some time until the software in fact closes running applications and the operating system itself.
[What a ridiculous patent!!! The fact that OS can be shutdown and prompt the user to confirm termination of a graphical window if any, at shutdown time, is known from time immemorial. If my memory servers me right, I remember to have seen this feature on my old iMac-G3. Yet another example of the idiotic workings of the nonsensical USPTO. Does USPTO even care to do their own research before granting the patent? I wonder how much money was exchanged for this nonsense.]
