In particular, Gates was in legal trouble with the Justice Department in terms of the court case United States v. Microsoft Corp surrounding the company's alleged unfair leveraging of its market dominance.

[7] Describing itself as "rated for teenagers" due to its "comic mischief" and "suggestive themes",[11] the game opens with the fictitious Microsoft janitor Graham and Bill Gates' personal assistant Meg (played by J. P. Manoux and Tamara Bick respectively) with a dialogue on the program.

[7] While noting that he was yet to examine the Palladium Interactive title, Microsoft spokesman Mark Murray commented that "ours are probably a little more serious" than Microshaft Winblows 98, and that the corporation "tr[ies] to have a sense of humor about this sort of thing".

A common praise was the game's humor,[7][22][23][24] which was described as "clever",[4][8] "twisted",[11] "relentlessly ... lampoon[ing]", "edgy", "offen[sive]",[8] "first-rate",[25] and comparable to the comedy group Monty Python.

[11] The Washington Times reviewer Joe Szadkowski described it as "devastatingly witty", "delightfully cruel", and the "coolest parody ever created", while hoping that Steve Jobs would find the title funny.

[9] David Duberman of Spectrum thought the game was Palladium Interactive's best work, praising its "fun ... surprises" and "clever, if not side-splitting, wordplay",[4] and MacLedge's Michael Dixon found the minigames both "enjoyable" and "quite replayable".

[25] In contrast, a MacAddict journalist was not as appreciative of the game's cruel comedy as other critics, giving the product an overall lukewarm review,[26][15] and ThemeWorld thought the program was not comprehensive enough to be considered a complete theme package.