Sending Up The Lords Of Software
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THOSE HUMORISTS AT Parroty Interactive are at it again. The company that has produced hilarious CD-ROM parodies of the popular TV program The X-Files (The X-Fools) and the successful computer game Myst (Pyst) have turned their high-tech humor on software giant Microsoft Corp.
Microshaft Winblows 98, available in retail stores for $19.95, is a spoof of the company, its software, and its hypercompetitive founder William H. Gates III. Stamped on the box: "Not Justice Dept. Approved Because We Never Asked."