Microsoft wins 'Tabbed Browsing' patent
InternetNews | at | by Mike
Microsoft has been granted a patent from the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office on a process known as tabbing through a Web page in order to find links.
Although the patent award has raised the ire of some in the open source browser community, the implications for the widely used technique are unclear. Microsoft filed for the patent in March of 1997. It covers the process of shifting between links on a Web page using the computer's tab button.