Microsoft Simulator 1.0 Released
   
   MicroBashers, a group of Linux hackers, has created its first Linux
   game, Microsoft Simulator.  "It's the best game ever written for Linux," one 
   MicroBasher brags.  "Surely this game will entice millions of Windoze users
   to switch to Linux."  
   
   Well, maybe not, but MSSIM is still a cool game.  The game comes in
   several versions, including a console version (using SVGALib), an
   X version, and a Java version.  All are available from the MicroBashers website
   http://www.microbashers.com/bill-sucks/games/mssim/
   MSSIM lets ordinary Linux users play the part of Bill Gates (or another
   Microsoft corporate weasel) and make day-to-day decisions regarding
   the software monopoly.  Players can initiate hostile takeovers, announce
   vaporware products, steal ideas from rivals ("innovate"), insert code
   in Microsoft programs to render competitors' software unusable, hire
   good employees from rivals, and more.  There's even an interactive
   Senate Hearing Mode where you present arguments defending Microsoft
   while Orrin Hatch, Ralph Nader, Janet Reno, and others attack you.
   
   MSSIM is released under the GPL.  "We plan on selling a MSSIM Deluxe
   game in the coming months for $19.95," a MicroBasher noted.  "MSSIM
   was actually not our original idea," the MicroBasher head programmer explains.
   "We found an old QuickBASIC version (how ironic!) sitting in an old
   software archive.  It had the source code, which we were able to easily
   convert to C.  We added a few improvements, and this is the final result.
   We're very happy about this."
   
   Microsoft was unavailable for comment, as usual.  There is some speculation
   that Microsoft plans to file a lawsuit against MicroBashers for, in the
   words of an anonymous source, "Distributing a game critcal of Microsoft
   on the Internet, something Microsoft 'invented'."