>>And so what?.... I entered microsoft.com and it took me to the MS web site. I entered mikerowesoft.com and it took me to "page not found".
>>I say it's 99% certain that he DID intentionally make the name exactly as he did. But it is no where near close to the Microsoft name. If one enunciated the phonetics into a voice recognition program, could one reasonably expect it to even come close to mikerowesoft.com????
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>?SOUNDEX("microsoft")     && gives me M262
>?SOUNDEX("mikerowesoft")  && gives me M262
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So does soundex("mkrs") and soundex("mcrs"). This function ingnores vowels completely, and groups consonants in ten groups by similarity. It isn't too intelligent - but then, it wasn't supposed to be. It was supposed to be fast and do the job.

>>MS is being assinine, plain and simple!
>What else is new :)

A friend of mine still has his company registered as "Microsort"... probably lucky that nobody heard of him beyond his town :).