This is almost too funny to be true…  The lawyers in Redmond must be a little bored post anti-trust trial days. Clearly there must be quite a few folks accidentally typing in this domain name thinking they were getting the software giant and mistakenly being directed to this student’s site.

"In what could easily be mistaken for an Onion story, Microsoft has unleashed the full fury of its lawyers on 17-year-old Canadian high-school student, Mike Rowe, demanding the handover of his Internet domain. The domain? MikeRoweSoft.com. No, seriously. Victoria-based Mike is currently studying math and chemistry and plans to study computer science at Victoria University next year. He registered the domain in August because he thought it would be cool to have a site that sounded like the famous company to show his Web designing skills..."

[Pocket PC Thoughts]