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I assume that most of you have heard about Microsoft's plans to sue teenager Mike Rowe because of his domain name MikeRoweSoft.com. This was obviously a terrible idea from both an ethical and a marketing perspective. However, Microsoft's solution to this marketing dilemma shows a sense of humor they usually lack. Instead of settling for an obscenely large sum of money, (like the RIAA often does) Microsoft paid for all costs of the domain transfer and the registration of a new domain, and gave Mike Rowe a free X-Box. Although Microsoft obviously has the money for such things, it is still good to see a large company reacting in such a reasonable way.
Posted by Can Sar at January 24, 2004 06:31 PM to category Computer Science | TrackBack