Weasel Spleen

Microsoft had a 'priority email inbox' way before Google, and has patents to prove it (Download Squad)

Oct 1st 2010 7:54PM The very notion of assigning different priorities to different email messages is sheer genius.

Clearly this is something Microsoft spent millions on, and they richly deserve to patent this incredible invention, the likes of which has never before been seen on earth.

One has to wonder, what on earth did people do in the past, before this brilliant concept of assigning different priorities to items based on their content was invented by Microsoft?

I can only imagine how difficult life must have been before this amazing invention. People randomly sifting through their mailboxes, uncertain of what to read and what to ignore, children going hungry because their parents couldn't decide whether to open their paychecks or their Publisher's Clearinghouse Sweepstakes envelopes?

The horror... the horror.