Microsoft has reached an agreement with Mike Rowe

[Nomad559]

Mike Rowe

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Microsoft has reached an agreement with Mike Rowe, the Canadian teenager who was using the Web site mikerowesoft.com in alleged violation of the Microsoft tradmark. Here are the details, as relayed to us by Microsoft spokesman Jim Desler. In exchange for Mike turning over the mikerowesoft.com domain to Microsoft, the company has:

Agreed to help direct any traffic from mikerowesoft.com to Rowe's new Web site (which he's currently working on) to make sure he doesn’t lose any business. The company will pay any out-of-pocket expenses related to this change, including cost associated with changing over to the new url and any other expenses. (The Rowe family is now calculating those expenses.

Invited Mike and his family on to the Microsoft campus for the company's Microsoft Research Tech Fest in March. The company will pay for the travel and accommodations. No promises, but it's possible he could meet Bill Gates, depending on the Microsoft chairman's schedule, Desler said.

Agreed to pay for Mike to get Microsoft Certification training. Depending on which courses he chooses, this could lead him to become a certified support technician, or system administrator, or something along those lines.

Agreed to give Mike a subscription to MSDN, the Microsoft Developer Network Web site, with various tools for developing software around Microsoft products.

Agreed to give Mike an Xbox game system, complete with a number of games of his choosing.

[lcordero]

1. If I were him I would ask to see the hotmail servers

[moof]

2. Yikes that seems like cruel an unusual punishment

ok this part is bad enough
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Agreed to pay for Mike to get Microsoft Certification training. Depending on which courses he chooses, this could lead him to become a certified support technician, or system administrator, or something along those lines.
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But no one should have to go thru this

"it's possible he could meet Bill Gates."

Did this kid win or lose ?

[Feanorcurufinwe]

3. What a total loser.

[JailForBush]

4. Typical Microsoft Stunt

Bury the kid in Microsoft merchandise and call it a generous resolution.

I wonder how Mike Rowe would have fared if he had told Bill Gates to go to Hell. I sure wish he had.

[Nomad559]

5. Microsoft Stunt?

How Is this a Microsoft Stunt?

Mike Rowe was never anti-Microsoft. :evilgrin:

[JailForBush]

6. That's what Microsoft does even when it loses a lawsuit - pays the

victim with Microsoft merchandise.

[Deja Q]

7. Shouldn't MS do that for EVERYBODY?

That's a bit of a big payoff because of a big mistake MS made.

Now add in how Microsoft has treated its customers and the entire industry, and we all should be demanding the same. Period. You who are PC techs and know how Windows works know what I mean: Bloaty code, unstable code, selling beta-grade code as production releases, with so many security holes... let alone how they act toward other companies with their bullying amongst other uncivilized practices... yeah, MS is surely a company that should be revered by us all because they know how to market. :eyes: Any civilization that puts profit above quality is doomed to failure and humiliation.

[7th_Sephiroth]

8. pay for certification training?

Fuck man, now i gotta beat the shit outta this guy, he creates a website with his name on it and gets free training, fuch man, i had to fuckin Pay for my mcse, it just about broke me