| Microsoft Pri0 - at forefront of fight against piracy - Monday, April 09, 2012Piracy is a big problem for software companies such as Microsoft. The company won't say how much it loses each year from counterfeiters selling fake Microsoft products. Nor will it disclose how much it spends combating the problem. But it cites the Business Software Alliance's estimate that software-piracy losses among tech companies totaled $59 billion worldwide in 2010. read more ...
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| Microsoft launches piracy-fighting viral marketing campaign in Hong Kong - Tuesday, August 30, 2011Microsoft is launching a viral web campaign today in Hong Kong that’s aimed at reducing software piracy. read more ...
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| Microsoft chief Steve Ballmer says China piracy very costly - Friday, May 27, 2011Microsoft chief executive Steve Ballmer has said rampant software piracy in China has eaten into his company's revenue in what is soon to be the world's top PC market, a report said Friday. read more ...
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| Microsoft moves to address global software piracy - Monday, May 02, 2011Worried by the increasing rate of global software piracy, Microsoft, the world’s largest software company with about 90, 000 employees in over 100 countries came up with comprehensive approach to address global software piracy. read more ...
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| Sound IP policies can reduce software piracy, says Microsoft - Saturday, April 30, 2011Unless sound IP policies were put in place to help reduce software piracy and counterfeiting which threaten legitimate businesses and expose consumers to the risks that come from using non-genuine software, the fight against piracy may be far fetched, Emmanuel Onyeje, General Manager Microsoft Anglophone West African has said. read more ...
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| Regional Microsoft counterfeit ring operting in OZ - Tuesday, April 19, 2011The case Microsoft launched late last week against Queensland-based Handii Pty Ltd – which it has accused of selling devices running unlicensed versions of Windows 7, may run a lot deeper than has at first appeared, with evidence now leading to the exposure of a regional syndicate that was distributing counterfeit Microsoft software. read more ...
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| Software piracy in Kuwait over 60% - highest in Gulf says Microsoft - Tuesday, April 05, 2011"This would immensely and negatively impact the creation of a well-seated information technology industry in the country," Ihab Mustafa, Microsoft-Kuwait regional director said. read more ...
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| Microsoft's support for anti-piracy initiatives yields more results - Wednesday, March 30, 2011Microsoft GulfMicrosoft GulfLoading... announced that the Kuwait Ministry of Commerce and Industry conducted four raids on resellers in February, recovering illegal Microsoft software loaded onto computers and disks. read more ...
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| Microsoft presses state to tackle software piracy - Saturday, March 12, 2011Microsoft is pushing Washington legislators to pass a law making it illegal for manufacturers that use pirated software to sell goods in the state. read more ...
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| Microsoft says La Familia drug cartel is selling bootleg Office software - Friday, February 04, 2011La Familia drug cartel is selling not just drugs, but also counterfeit Microsoft Office computer software, according the Redmond, Wash., tech giant. read more ...
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| Pirated Microsoft software funded Mexican drug cartel - Friday, February 04, 2011According to the company’s lawyers, the sale of pirated Microsoft software has been lining the pockets of infamous Mexican drug cartel La Familia Michoacana. The money from the counterfeit copies has funded the group’s extremely illegal activity, including kidnappings and drug and weapons trafficking. read more ...
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| Oman seizes pirated Microsoft software - Wednesday, February 02, 2011The Royal Oman Police recently caught computer shop operators purportedly offering and selling pirated Microsoft software on computers during three separate raids conducted at the Ruwi business district in Muscat. read more ...
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| Ballmer to Hu: 90% of Microsoft customers in China using pirated software - Friday, January 21, 2011While Chinese President Hu Jintao knew he'd face some tough questions when he came to the United States this week, he probably figured most of them would come from Barack Obama and members of Congress. But you can add Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer to that list. read more ...
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| Microsoft cans anti-piracy tool - Tuesday, December 21, 2010Software giant Microsoft has confirmed the retirement of its Office Genuine Advantage programme, less than 18 months after its launch. read more ...
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| Microsoft steps up anti-piracy battle - Wednesday, November 24, 2010Microsoft corporation has filed lawsuits against 10 computer dealers in Malaysia claiming copyright infringement, kicking off a six-month campaign to protect consumers from the threat of software piracy. read more ...
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| Consumer action day - protecting yourself against counterfeit software - Wednesday, November 17, 2010As counterfeiters produce more sophisticated forgeries that continue to blur the line between what is real and what is fake, consumers need to better understand the true risks of counterfeit software.
That’s why Microsoft is launching Consumer Action Day today, the third annual world-wide event to empower consumers with knowledge to protect themselves, because the numbers associated with pirated software are staggering. read more ...
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| One in two consumers concerned about data loss or ID theft from counterfeit software - Tuesday, November 16, 2010Microsoft Corp. today released the results of a broad consumer survey it commissioned, which asked more than 38,000 men and women in 20 countries around the world about their perceptions of counterfeit software. read more ...
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| Microsoft vs. software piracy - Saturday, November 06, 2010Microsoft has adopted a hard-line stance against counterfeiting. It has set up a sophisticated anti-piracy operation that dwarfs those of other software makers; the staff includes dozens of former government intelligence agents from the United States, Europe and Asia, who use a host of “CSI”-like forensic technology tools for finding and convicting criminals. read more ...
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| Beware fake Microsoft security essentials - Friday, October 22, 2010Microsoft Security Essentials is fake. Well, it is and it isn't. Microsoft Security Essentials is a free antimalware protection program from Microsoft, but a new malware threat identified by security software vendor F-Secure is also masquerading as Microsoft Security Essentials. read more ...
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| Microsoft chief laments Chinese business software piracy - Friday, October 08, 2010Microsoft chief executive Steve Ballmer has decried the use of pirated software by Chinese firms. "One of the things that has improved a lot around the world is business piracy, and yet when we look at China today business piracy is more extreme than consumer piracy," he told a business forum in Madrid. read more ...
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| Microsoft forensics labs fight software piracy - Sunday, July 25, 2010Just as crime-scene investigators on TV’s “CSI” use ballistics to match bullets to a suspect’s gun, Keating will use the abrasions and grooves on the stacking ring, a raised ridge around the disc’s center, to match it to other fakes. Keating, the company’s senior forensics manager, will then try to trace the counterfeit disc to the factory and the crime syndicate that produced it. read more ...
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| Microsoft catches 25 UK companies for selling fake software - Friday, July 23, 2010Software Company Microsoft has nabbed 25 UK-based companies that admitted they sold counterfeit software of Windows operating system through fresh computers since 2010 beginning. read more ...
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| Microsoft names and shames pirates - Wednesday, July 07, 2010Consumers need to constantly be on the guard against being sold pirated software, and firms need to be aware that Microsoft is cracking down, and is also prepared to name and shame those involved.
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| Quiz: guess which is real and pirated Microsoft software - Friday, June 18, 2010Can you tell the difference between real and counterfeit Microsoft software? read more ...
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| Governments must help fight software piracy - Microsoft - Monday, June 07, 2010GOVERNMENTS must help to preserve intellectual property rights of local software developers in order to prevent piracy, Microsoft East and Southern Africa license compliance manager, Andrew Waititu has said. read more ...
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| Microsoft says Cloud computing can end software piracy - Thursday, June 03, 2010Microsoft Mr. A Ballmer says that software privacy will end with the emergence of cloud based computing as it makes them safer. read more ...
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| Microsoft,BSA to step up fight against software piracy in Ukraine - Tuesday, May 25, 2010Microsoft Corporation and the Business Software Alliance (BSA) say they are planning to step up the fight against the proliferation of counterfeit software in Ukraine. read more ...
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| Microsoft's Ballmer says China piracy is a problem - Monday, May 24, 2010Microsoft Corp. is less optimistic about China as a market than India or Indonesia because of the country’s lack of progress in stamping out software piracy, Chief Executive Officer Steve Ballmer said. read more ...
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| Stay protected against software piracy: Microsoft offers tips - Friday, April 09, 2010Pirated software is a booming industry. And the boom can be attributed for a major part to people’s ignorance about the cause and effects of such an illegal practice. read more ...
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| Microsoft says anti-software piracy campaign important - Saturday, March 27, 2010KUWAIT: Microsoft-Gulf in Kuwait has stressed its ongoing efforts to curb the spread of pirated software, to protect customers and ensure a level playing field for the region's legitimate resellers. read more ...
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| Microsoft warns of fake security essentials 2010 anti-virus software - Friday, February 26, 2010Microsoft is warning users about a fake anti virus product named "Security Essentials 2010", near identical to the naming of the company's own protection software.
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| Microsoft launches lawsuits in piracy crackdown - Monday, December 07, 2009Microsoft Corp. (MSFT) said Thursday it has unleashed a series of lawsuits and is cooperating in criminal prosecutions worldwide in an effort to stem piracy of its software. read more ...
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| Microsoft wins piracy lawsuit - Monday, July 20, 2009China’s Do-It-Yourself personal computer market has proven a chronic headache for Microsoft Corp, which is continually battling the use of pirated software. read more ...
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| Microsoft pirates sentenced after selling fake Windows software - Saturday, January 31, 2009A group of Microsoft pirates were sentenced to six and a half years in prison after selling illegal counterfeit copies of Windows software. The group made over $2 billion in counterfeit sales on Windows XP, Server, Vista, and other products. read more ...
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| Chinese court convicts 11 in Microsoft piracy case - Wednesday, December 31, 2008A court in southern China convicted 11 people on Wednesday of violating national copyright laws and participating in a sophisticated counterfeiting ring that for years manufactured and distributed pirated Microsoft software throughout the world. read more ...
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| Microsoft kicks fake security software off 400,000 PCs - Thursday, December 25, 2008In the second month of a campaign against fake security software, Microsoft has booted the rogue application "Antivirus 2009" from almost 400,000 PCs, the company recently claimed. read more ...
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| Microsoft warns customers against bogus ‘blue edition’ Office - Thursday, December 04, 2008Microsoft has today filed 63 lawsuits against online auctioneers in 12 countries who allegedly sold pirated copies of MS software on sites including its own MSN shopping network. The company said the number of counterfeit Microsoft goods sold online was getting out of hand. read more ...
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| Microsoft cleans fake antivirus tool from 994,061 PCs - Monday, November 24, 2008Win32/FakeSecSen has gone by various names, including Micro Antivirus 2009, MS Antivirus, Spyware Preventer, Vista Antivirus 2008, Advanced Antivirus, System Antivirus 2008, Ultimate Antivirus 2008, Windows Antivirus, XPert Antivirus, Power Antivirus, and Ultra Antivirus 2009. read more ...
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| Washington and Microsoft sue fake anti-spyware vendors - Wednesday, October 01, 2008The US State of Washington and Microsoft have instituted a number of legal actions against vendors of 'Scareware' under the Computer Spyware Act.
Alleged security programs are increasingly bombarding innocent PC users with fake messages detailing putative threats or infections. read more ...
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