I hope they get the investment. Wine will probably also benefit from the development of ReactOS.

So they moved to a faster release rate so they could show off numbers as big as Internet Explorer and Chrome... and now they remove numbers altogether to the end user? What the hell was the point of all that? Was is the point of any of these two changes?

They should get some credit for spending money encrypting their data but it's still another case of a company that only does the right thing AFTER shit hits the fan.

Terrorist know they'll never going to bring down America by blowing up a plane or building. Hell they could blow up 1000 planes and it wouldn't matter. What they really want is to terrorize the citizens into changing their way of life and making them live in fear. I'd say they're doing a pretty good job on that.

I'm not a hater so the point of my question wasn't that Apple's claim is baseless (I honestly don't have the knowledge to take a position here since I haven't done any research). I agree that companies should be rewarded for their innovations but the patent system is so messy with the trolls and everything that I naturally take this kind of news with a grain of salt.

I might not be well informed but has this kind of move ever worked in the industry? Has any significantly big company ever stop selling their products because of moves like this?

If I had $500,000 worth of bitcoins I would definitly encrypt the wallet file and create a new one for regular use. And yeah the BitCoin stories are getting out of hand. Time to move on Slashdot.

House M.D. will get a lot less interesting now.

this being used as a justification by bigots.

To think that aimbot will soon be a requirement for realism in war games.

What I find interesting is that this whole XP thing is probably gonna repeat itself with Windows 8 IMO. Windows 7 users won't upgrade for the same reason: it's just good enough. In fact, Windows 8 better be really crappy so Windows 9 will have more chances of being a success. My $0.02.

Microsoft has for so long depended on it's Windows monopoly for business and now that platforms that aren't Windows-required for regular people to want it are showing up (read not x86 PCs) they realized they have a lot of trouble competing regularly. The solution? "More Windows everywhere of course! It's how we know to play the game."

Slashdot tries to turn April's Fool into Torture-Your-Readers day. Oh God. Make it stop!

You might argue about the problems patents bring us but this at least isn't a "systems and methods" patent which I hate so much. It's a pretty solid one... if they were really granted it they got a solid case in my opinion. I hope they won't win because this could really stifle innovation (I'd hate to see a smartphone without a camera, music player, and so on because patents are stopping it or making it too expensive). But in a legal way I think Kodak is unfortunately right.

Good. Now they should ask for only a little over 42 trillion.