Note that the patent does not seem to cover the most annoying aspect of a Windows shutdown, the never ending Windows updates. I have not used Windows on my dual-boot laptop for months for precisely that reason... I am waiting anxiously to see that patented as well.
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Microsoft gets patent for Windows shutdown
Via Conceivably Tech, we learn that Microsoft was granted a patent for the shutdown procedure in Windows. If I understand it right, Microsoft is now the sole owner of the procedure asking whether you really want to close an application with unsaved data.
[Posted at 09/02/2010 01:03 PM by Christian Zimmermann on Software Patents 
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If only Microsoft would work on patenting technology that would make Windows shut down in, say, 5 seconds, instead of 15 minutes.
[Comment at 09/06/2010 04:33 PM by patent litigation]
This wouild seem to fail the non-obvious test. I mean, isn't the natural thing to shut down a computer when someone is done using it?
[Comment at 09/07/2010 05:46 AM by Bill Stepp]
"If I understand it right, Microsoft is now the sole owner of the procedure asking whether you really want to close an application with unsaved data. "
Now? Gnome has been doing this for ages, at least as far as I can rememeber. How many eons do they really waste between filing for a patent (to not be too mean to M$, let's assume it's older then 5 years)? This is one of many reasons for why patents, and software patents in particular, is broken.
[Comment at 09/09/2010 03:11 PM by Natanael_L]
Note that the patent does not seem to cover the most annoying aspect of a Windows shutdown, the never ending Windows updates. I have not used Windows on my dual-boot laptop for months for precisely that reason... I am waiting anxiously to see that patented as well.
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