Author: JT Smith
From The Register: “Microsoft’s plan to providing Windows XP (aka Whistler) with interface themes (aka skins) may be knocked on the head by Apple, which has patented desktop themes. The patent, granted on 13 February from an application made way back in May 1998, covers “systems and methods for providing a user with increased flexibility and control over the appearance and behaviour of objects on a user interface are described.”
