Do you have any doubts MS will close that site for any kind of IE trademark violation ?
I also agreed with gm's comment...
"Pretty sophomoric, insignificant, and unworthy of HN readers' time."
I also agree with this assessment.
But please understand that I didn't do this to poke fun of Microsoft or anything like that. It was just funny at the time. I'd completely forgotten about it until yesterday morning when my inbox was suddenly flooded.
IMO MS usually fail with their evangelists. Looks like MS too bureaucratic inside. I saw one very good MS enthusiast who now work for MS - now he is mostly ms advertiser. So i seriously doubt they can monitor all such notable points and be in touch.
And i should admit its pretty funny (despite its offtopically for HN) if this was done far before IE9 release. Offtopic: for best effect then - make a brouser detection and show different recommendations\redirects for other browsers ;). Be fair then ;)