The way your post reads, to me, sounds like you saying that MS tried to get a patent....couldn't....and then vplm comes along and gets it done what ms couldn't. Thst is how your post reads but that is not what occurred. What occurred is that vplm filed for purportedly the same basic technology 2 yrs before ms did. Hence ms did not get it because vp was 1st to file. Then ms didn't give up trying for 5 yrs, to no avail. What you stated sounds different to me.
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