Sharing the Family PC is Patent-Pending

While Mainframe and Unix users are unlikely to find it novel that Windows XP 
allows several family members to share a PC while enabling each to have 
personalized settings and folders, that's not stopping Microsoft from seeking 
a patent for 'Methods and arrangements for providing multiple concurrent 
desktops and workspaces in a shared computing environment', the USPTO 
disclosed Thursday.

--> Link to Microsoft's Patent Application

http://appft1.uspto.gov/netacgi/nph-Parser?Sect1=PTO1&Sect2=HITOFF&d=PG01&p=1&u=%2Fnetahtml%2FPTO%2Fsrchnum.html&r=1&f=G&l=50&s1=%2220040088709%22.PGNR.&OS=DN/20040088709&RS=DN/20040088709

Received on Friday, 7 May 2004 00:44:54 UTC