Microsoft denies licensing creates pirates

THE HEAD of Microsoft's anti-piracy programme in the UK has denied that most counterfeiting problems were of Vole's own making due to its draconian licensing system.

Speaking to ZD Net, Michala Alexander, said there would always be people who don't think they should pay Microsoft and they would do so even if Vole dropped the prices.

She said that Kiwi shoe polish was counterfeited and that was not expensive. It was all down to people wanting to get something for the lowest price.

Alexander said that the most counterfeited software was Windows XP, and then Windows 2003. However, some of the older Windows 2000 and 64-bit versions are also tipping up.

She said that pirates follow a strategy of maximising their sales of the previous OS to be released, so at the moment there was an increase in XP and Office 2003 as Vole moves towards Vista.

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