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Microsoft: The Big Bully

There have been several takeoffs on Microsoft's name. For example, Apple Computer in the late 1970s named its software "AppleSoft", in a pun on "applesauce", but also on "Microsoft". The name sounds like "My crow's soft.", which sound like someone can't get it up, but with the species of bird specified. I haven't seen many cracks like this lately. And certainly things like this should not affect the multi-billion-dollar giant. But today apparently it had.

A story came out today that a 17-year-old Vancouver, British Columbia, high school student named Mike Rowe established a website for himself called www.MikeRoweSoft.com. So now Microsoft has stooped down to suing the youngster and getting him to abandon the name. Perhaps if bully Microsoft would be more polite, it could get Mr. Rowe to put a plug for Microsoft on his site, but not now. Microsoft, long known for playing games with its software, now is playing games with its own name.