Microsoft: We took MikeRoweSoft too seriously

[Nomad559]

Microsoft

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Microsoft has admitted it may have made a mistake in threatening Mike Rowe for using his Web site, mikerowesoft.com

Rowe, a student from Vancouver, registered mikerowesoft.com to front his part-time Web site design business in August 2003. Three months later, he received an email from Microsoft's lawyers asking him to transfer the domain name to Microsoft. They offered to pay him a "settlement" of $10 (£5.55), which is the cost of his original registration fee.

However, after the case received widespread coverage on the Internet, Microsoft has admitted it may have taken things too far and has promised to treat Rowe fairly. A Microsoft spokesperson told ZDNet UK: "We appreciate that Mike Rowe is a young entrepreneur who came up with a creative domain name. We take our trademark seriously, but maybe a little too seriously in this case."
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Microsoft a Finalist for LinuxWorld Award

LinuxWorld Award

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Microsoft's interoperability efforts got a credibility boost when the latest version of Services for Unix earned a nomination for best integration solution at a major Linux show.

SFU 3.5, released on Thursday, is a finalist for the LinuxWorld Product Excellence Awards in the category of Best Integration Solution. Microsoft's competition in the category is BEA WebLogic Platform 8.1 from BEA Systems Inc. and Enj Ports from BISIL North America Inc.

Winners in the integration category and 10 other categories will be announced Wednesday afternoon from the floor of the IDG LinuxWorld Conference & Expo in New York. The show begins Tuesday and runs through Friday.

[bubblesby2002]

1. Re MikeRowesoft

Yeah I read this in this morning's paper. They only came to this conclusion though (microsoft I mean) when they saw the way public opinion was against them. Oh well. At least they came to their senses.

Also Mike Rowe is NOT a student in Vancouver, he goes to Belmont Secondary in Colwood which is a suburb of Victoria. Sheesh don't journalists know the difference between Vancouver and Vancouver Island?:eyes:

[Interrobang]

2. No wonder it's so cold in here...

The chill is radiating up from below... I do believe I just saw a red guy out front carrying a pair of ice skates and a hockey stick.

Microsoft actually behaves with PR acumen in a legal matter?
Microsoft wins an award from a Linux show?

Yep, Hell has definitely frozen over. :)

[HuckleB]

3. If only Starbucks would follow suit.

http://victoria.indymedia.org/news/2003/05/14256_comment.php

[regnaD kciN]

4. Actually, they already did...

...almost five months ago.

http://www.haidabuckscafe.com/news.htm