In a more alarming change of events today, multi-billion dollar company Microsoft, And all of its correspondents have gone under, and filed for bankruptcy. The computer giant has lost its monopoly status to its two-month long rival, BAKATECH. BAKATECH, started by rising teen prodigy Ranma Saotome, was going the way of other small time challengers of the Gates Empire. However, it seems that Saotome literally overnight put out products that were vastly superior to any given good or service distributed by Microsoft. Mallet 4.0, BAKATECH's premiere hardware program, delivers, according to market reports, everything the consumer could want, at a sale's price of a laptop trainer for children. Mr. Saotome, a Japanese youth of 17 years, was asked how he did what was deemed 'the impossible,' to which he responded: "This Gates guy comes into our class as part of some campaign of his about two months back. It was boring to me, so I went to sleep. Next thing I know, he's in my face tellin' me how vital this stuff is to my life. I say that all I need is the Art. And besides, one computer is as good as another, so why is his stuff so important? "Then he goes off on this fit, and says I'll never make it big like him. I look at him seriously and ask if that was a challenge, and he says yeah. From there it was a lot of work, and I'll admit was wasn't doing too good to start with. In the end though, he was just like everybody else I've been challenged by, all talk and no technique. No one can defeat Ranma Saotome." Ranma, who spends his time practicing martial arts, turned the majority company dealings and workings to his sister-in-law-to-be, Nabiki Tendo, making her the CEO. He currently resides at the Tendo compound, a well-furnished house and Dojo in Nerima District, Tokyo. When asked what he would do with his stocks, and what he had planned for BAKATECH in the future, he replied, "It will stay with Nab-chan. This way, I figure I can get off and keep off her tab for the next dozen years." Mr. Gates was unavailable for comment.