Mike Rowe

[Ronin]

Im sure u all know about Mike Rowe by now... pretty smart kid eh?

For those of you who dont know, Mike Rowe is a programer, and created MikeRoweSoft.com. Microsoft got pissed off and offered him $10 for the name. he said no (duh) and they threatened to sue him. Microsoft got a lot of bad publicity so they decided to let him have the name, got him a new website, gave him microsoft certification training, and sent him to disney world for a week.

www.mikerowesoft.com
www.mikeroweforums.com

The reason I am posting this is because some dumbass is paying $106,000 for the letters he recieved from Microsoft on ebay. http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=3382073018

[rvn2k3]

i wish my name was mike rowe.

[Syphon]

Microsoft got pissed off and offered him $10 for the name. he said no (duh) and they threatened to sue him. Microsoft got a lot of bad publicity so they decided to let him have the name, got him a new website, gave him microsoft certification training, and sent him to disney world for a week.


That's not quite what happened...they said "hand it over" he said "gimme $10,000" which was a very stupid move on his part. They said "settle or we'll see you in court" and he buckled and got an xbox, ms training and gets to go to some ms conferance in Boston.

Only smart part is, he is selling all the documents, current bid is around $28,000 which seems to be bs since that bidders last buy was a $33 computer case.

[Ronin]

they offered him $10 dollars at first, then he said gime $10k, and then the rest of what i said

btw, the current bid was a 106,000 when i posted, now its $200,000 :)