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Story: Mikerosoft.ca magnifies Microsoft's PR nightmare

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It seems like the world is now taking the "Michael" out of Microsoft after years of them doing it to a world forced to feed their greed with their inferior operating systems. It would seem strange to me that Microsoft are applying an American Law outside the USA. I thought that laws such as this varied from country to country as trademarks are not (as far as I am aware) not legally bound items in the same way as copyright items where the person or organisation has paid money to protect their interests. So if I decided to set up a company called "Small Software" I would (following Microsoft’s current logic) be subject to legal action from them as "their customers might be confused" by the similarity in the names (micro = small, soft = software). If the two Mikes were doing the same as Microsoft (i.e. selling inferior software which by the time they fix most of the problems they no longer support and you have to buy the new software which is worse than the old one etc etc) Is it not time that Microsoft and the American Legal system which promotes this kind of action come up to date with the rest of the world and start to use a bit of common sense, or is that too much to hope for.

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