Microsoft applied for a "Modular Computing Device" (AIO) patent

[XORYOUYOU]

The US patent and trademark office  released the application for a "Modular Computing Device".

 

Link to the published 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=20160041582.PGNR.

 

 

[zacRupnow]

Neat. Hope they give more support to their future implementations than Acer did.

[XORYOUYOU]

1 minute ago, zacRupnow said:

Neat. Hope they give more support to their future implementations than Acer did.

I just hope they don't sue the sh*t out of everybody else and say "yeah we only wanted to patent the next-gen POS machine and don't like competition"

[Paralectic]

Patents for products already on the market, sigh.

[AlTech]

23 minutes ago, Paralectic said:

Patents for products already on the market, sigh.

To me this looks like a futuristic AIO. I've always wondered why they never tried to make a desktop or AIO.

[XORYOUYOU]

2 hours ago, AluminiumTech said:

To me this looks like a futuristic AIO. I've always wondered why they never tried to make a desktop or AIO.

Nothing really futuristic about it.

 

POS-Systems look like this since the mid 90s.

 

Only thing they could modularize would be the printer, scanner and cash unit.

 

 

[AlTech]

4 minutes ago, XORYOUYOU said:

Nothing really futuristic about it.

 

POS-Systems look like this since the mid 90s.

 

Only thing they could modularize would be the printer, scanner and cash unit.

 

 

I was talking about the top image. The bottom one looks like a generic POS system.

[Doobeedoo]

So modular AIO PC where it's modular with modules where each module is a certain component right? Heh.

[dragosudeki]

Let's hope that the provided OS is also modular. I'm sure the average person would be annoyed to realize that the Computing module they swapped wouldn't work on the same Storage module. 

[Guest Kloaked]

I hope the patent gets rejected. 

[Trik'Stari]

Inb4 Apple's lawsuit division shits themselves

[BrianS]

Anyone remember the Razer Christine project?