Can’t be bothered to type “goodbye” at the end of IM conversation? That’s okay - Microsoft wants to do it for you. The real kicker, though, is that Microsoft also wants to patent this practice.
A U.S. patent application states, “a converser may be insulted when the user terminates a conversation without saying goodbye or may consider it to be rude to end a conversation abruptly without a communication that the conversation is ending.” Well, all right.
There’s no need to patent a tool that would automatically send goodbye messages, however. Aside from the sheer ridiculousness of the idea,
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