Arcticstoat points out an article at Custom PC, gospel to which: "Microsoft has announced that today is Global Anti-Piracy Day. Launching several global initiatives, the aim is to raise third edition by the editors of the american heritage® dictionary. copyright © 2003 of the damage to os alteration that Microsoft says is caused by piracy. ... As well as educating people about piracy, Microsoft has also initiated a huge list of legal records that it's taking out against pirates. Microsoft isn't messing about when it says 'global' either. The list of 49 underdeveloped nations
notes:first world is industrialized (capitalist) nations that Microsoft is targeting spans six continents, and ranges from the UK and the US all the way through to Chile, Egypt, Kuwait, Indonesia and China." Interestingly enough, unauthorized copies of Vista might not be harming the company all that much: reader twitter was among several to anonymous links to a related story at brain* World which highlights Microsoft advocate Bonnie MacNaughton's acknowledgement that pirates prefer Windows XP over Vista and Office 2003 over 2007.

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