I've been in China for 2 years now and ritten several letters to NSFT and asked where I can buy a legit copy of Xp or Vista here, actully it seems that it is not possible, at least MSFT is not forthcoming with the info, so I asked them if I buy the software in another country, they replied that all I have to do is install it and follow the activation directions, so here we have MSFT complaining about piracy but they don't sell a legit version in China, DUH!!!