Would You Rather Hear "You're Fired" From Trump Or Gates?

As a part of its advertising campaign for the company's new Office Accounting Express application, Microsoft is hosting a technology startup company competition reminiscent of TV's Apprentice and World's Best Inventor (or whatever that show was called). Once a winning startup is selected and their market has been proven, Microsoft will release something very similar but uglier, cheaper and with DRM and drive the startup out of business. We kid, Microsoft! It comes from a place of love! The winning startup actually gets $100,000 in seed money and a Manhattan store-front for a year.

To drive home the connection to The Apprentice, Microsoft has hired Carolyn Kepcher, and if we were more up on our Reality TV gossip, we'd recount the falling-out she had with Trump. As things are, we seem to recall something like that happening and can't be bothered to actually look it up.

Startup idea submissions are due January, 31 at www.ideawins.com.