Microsoft files a trademark that covers the look of the WP7 homescreen
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You heard that right folks, Microsoft wants to make sure that no one else comes along to conjure up something that remotely emulates the look of their homescreen layout. The portrait only look of the WP7 homescreen is colorfully made up of various tiles that are placed closely to one another – not to mention that some of them have an animated look.
There’s nothing wrong with filing a trademark for it, especially when it’s obviously something extremely appealing to look at, but it makes you wonder if they’ll ever come around to enable it for landscape view.
source: USPTO via MobileCrunch
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2 Comments
1. shafboy posted on 17 Feb 2011, 15:25 2
I bought it because of this and the live tiles. Also for the pictures hub thing, its cool
2. DontHateOnS60 posted on 17 Feb 2011, 16:00 0
Great... and here I was hoping they'd redo it completely and go for multiple homescreens like on Android and Symbian^3. So much for that idea...
