  Samsung Galaxy S II  (Source: Samsung) You can run, but you
can't hide from Microsoft's wrath           Comments    
Threshold   RE: really By ussfletcher on 9/28/2011 8:08:39 PM ,
Rating: 0 I think what people seem to neglect is that Microsoft
is almost wholly responsible for gui elements that everyone
takes for granted today.  RE: really By lolmuly on 9/28/2011
10:00:40 PM , Rating: 3 care to elaborate? because i was under
the impression that microsoft borrowed it from apple who
borrowed it from xerox. Beyond icons, buttons, windows, menus,
and cursors, what else is there?  Maybe transitions? But I'm
pretty sure those can all be attributed to the film industry
long before operating systems started using them.  Am I
overlooking something obvious here? And if it's so obvious that
I would overlook it, why should it have a patent?  RE: really By
nocturne_81 on 9/29/2011 6:51:20 AM , Rating: 2 Though it may
have seemed revolutionary at the time.. The GUI's that we all
enjoy are almost entirely the product of c