[pchelpers] Microsoft Hassling a Teenager
- From: Tonia <ltonwannabe@xxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: PCHelpers <pchelpers@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Wed, 21 Jan 2004 09:01:36 +0000 (GMT)
Below is an extract from the newsletter Woody's Windows Watch. Doesn't this
incident make you fuming mad!!
--quote--
Microsoft is off to a poor start PR-wise. Hassling a teenager called Mike Rowe
who has a sense of humor to make his web site MikeRoweSoft.com . Say it aloud
and you'll realize why Microsoft became interested. Now I could understand
Redmond's concern if this was a scam of some sort, but apparently the kids name
is Mike Rowe and his web site (currently overloaded with hits but you can see
the Google cache version) wasn't pretending to be Microsoft related. Microsoft
Legal went in boots thumping to threaten a teenager and then offer a paltry
$10. Making unreasonable demands of people is what is called by Microsoft
'Good faith effort' - you'd hate to see when they play hard ball. The company
says the site could be used for misleading purposes in the future. McDonald's
has made a fool of itself by trying to stop members of the McDonald clan
establish legitimate businesses in that famous name, it's a wonder that
Microsoft is making similar mistakes. Why not go all the way and
sue the parents for giving their child a misleading name? Surely a polite
request that the web site have a disclaimer that it's not related to Microsoft
would have been sufficient (for anyone silly enough not to tell the two apart).
For heaven's sake - would someone at Microsoft call a halt to this nonsense
before the company name is further tarnished? --end quote---
Just in case the above link doesn't work, here is the complete URL of Mike
Rowe's website.
http://www.google.com.au/search?q=cache:FSp2EjIGGqwJ:www.mikerowesoft.com/+mikerowesoft&hl=en&start=1&ie=UTF-8
Tonia
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