Microsoft has won a patent for HTML Application – 3477 days old

[Case]

Microsoft has been awarded a patent allowing them to Launch a certain kind of HTML application within its Windows software.

The patent states "Method and apparatus for writing a Windows application in HTML" (Hypertext Markup Language), describes Microsoft's way of opening up HTML applications in a window free of navigation and other interface elements, known as "chrome"."

Microsoft has been on the defensive because of another patent for running applications within a Web browser. The plug-in patent belongs to the University of California and is licensed to a one-man company Eolas.

[BobGuy]

and channel-download technology--without enforcing the strict security model and user interface of the browser.

Oh well, here we go again.