Mike Rowe Soft = update
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- benfal99
The little Mike have been bought by Microsoft....
With an Xbox!!
> http://blog.seattlepi.nwsource.c…
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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.
- brundlefly0
Agreed to pay for Mike to get Microsoft Certification training.
Ohh Yippie!
- jevad0
man...that stupid kid...he could have fought them...stead he caves in and takes some msoft training and a fucking xbox?
sellout bitch
- Mimio0
He got free publicity for new site.
- jevad0
whooopa dee doo!
- Mimio0
Microsoft could have fucked him over, but they opted for the good PR instead.
- fifty500
he should've asked for a playstation 2
- jevad0
lol!
microsoft didn't have a legal foot to stand on!
- Mimio0
Sure they did. But it all depends on the UN World Intellectual Property Organisation ruling.
- ldww0
i am sure there was also a pay off that they did not disclose.
- ********0
geez, all that for a silly little domain. who the f#ck would type in mikerowesoft to come to microsoft anyway?
i think the whole hype is just something Microsoft wants to be part of.
and btw. the kid is pretty well compensated with his now worldwide known lil' webdezign company.
my 2c.
- jox0
Yeah, I hear his new site is ZuccaYucci dot com.
Better give up that PS2 of yours to him if you want it, Janne ;)
- drzoom0
I guess generousy like that is why Billy now gets knighted... http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/34…
hehe ... I like his first attempt to give the boy $10 to buy himself some sweets...
- ********0
shit jox, i don't have any PS2 'round here..
i can give him one of these though:
..and throw in a free asskick-training..
will that do?
- jox0
Not sure man. It's a long process. Although what you showed me together with a pile of old Hustler mags should do the trick.
- ********0
'old hustler mags'..
hmm...
*looks under bed
*tries to open a few
they're sort of...
sticky.
:/
- smoothblend0
I wonder if he is going to be Mike Row Soft Certified?
Bada-Bing! Bada-Boom!
- jox0
Nobody mentioned this earlier - what kind of FUCKED UP parents name their son MIKE ROWE?
Jox: My son - from now on, you're Nuwsth Odáy!
- mrdobolina0
The kid was blatantly using the Microsoft name to further his business. How did Microsoft not have a legal leg to stand on? Just because it's Microsoft, doesn't make it any better.
- jox0
Yeah, true dob, but still - the case was based on the fact that MS thought it would be misleading to have that URL pointing to the little kid's site.
Now, here's the scenario - would they really want customers using their shit when they spell their name like that? Oh wait, maybe that's why they invented the Paperclip™? ;)
- smoothblend0
Jox I was talking to my lead designer about the same shit at lunch. Like naming your kid Jenny with tellya as the last name.
Hello, Im Jenny Tellya