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LOS ANGELES, California (Reuters) -- Pick your favorite geek: Napoleon Dy namite or Bill Gates? Seeking to capitalize on the popularity of the 2004 cult movie "Napoleon Dynamite", Microsoft Corp. Tuesday screened a video spoof for software d evelopers in which the film's celebrated anti-hero reports to work as a programmer for the world's largest software maker. In a face-off between the two nerd icons, Jon Heder, the actor who plays Napoleon Dynamite, beats Gates in a slapping match to become the head of the software giant. Gates is shown recruiting Heder's fictional character, after which they a re seen together in ill-fitting brown suits on Microsoft's campus in Red mond, Washington. In the last scene of the video spoof, Gates is seen scurrying into the of fice of his boss, Napoleon Dynamite. Microsoft often uses major events to poke fun at its competitive business culture and and its hands-on chairman, Gates, the company's largest ind ividual shareholder and the world's richest man with an estimated net wo rth of more than $48 billion. Microsoft showed developers preliminary versions of its upgrades of its f lagship Windows and Office programs to software developers at this weeks ' conference in Los Angeles.
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