Microsoft wins patent suit

**Glaswegian** · 11-16-2007, 01:16 PM

Microsoft won a patent dispute this week over technology that helps computers boot up faster.

The suit, filed in the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Texas, charged Microsoft with infringing on U.S. patent 5933630, which was issued in 1999 to Acceleration Software International Corp. The suit asked the court to award the patent holder $2.50 per copy of Windows XP sold in the U.S. By Microsoft's account, that could have amounted to between $600 million and $900 million.

http://www.computerworld.com/action/...ce=rss_topic17

**Jack.Sparrow** · 11-17-2007, 12:50 AM

XP was meant to boot fast?

**sobeit** · 11-17-2007, 01:02 AM

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Originally Posted by Jack.Sparrow

XP was meant to boot fast?

thats why microsoft won - it could be shown that winxp did not boot fast so there could have not been any patent infringement.

**Deleted090308** · 11-17-2007, 01:10 AM

They must have used it in Windows ME, which boots very fast - and "unboots" even faster.

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11-17-2007, 01:10 AM	#4 (permalink)
Deleted090308 Not... Join Date: Jan 2007 Posts: 22,277 OS: Xp	Re: Microsoft wins patent suit They must have used it in Windows ME, which boots very fast - and "unboots" even faster.