Rip-Off of Windows Phone’s People-Centric Interface was Inevitable | Windows Phone content from Paul Thurrott's SuperSite for Windows

tbd if Microsoft also patented the color blue...

"And now we have Facebook Home. And even Microsoft is (finally) complaining about the idea theft.
“I tuned into the coverage of the Facebook Home event yesterday and actually had to check my calendar a few times,” Microsoft communications chief Frank Shaw wrote in a post to the firm’s official blog. “Not to see if it was still April Fools Day, but to see if it was somehow still [2010]. Because the content of the presentation was remarkably similar to the launch event we did for Windows Phone two [and a half] years ago.”"

Rip-Off of Windows Phone’s People-Centric Interface was Inevitable | Windows Phone content from Paul Thurrott's SuperSite for Windows