Microsoft scours hold for bilge rats

The firm said today that, and we quote verbatim here: "Those who sail aboard the good ship Microsoft have a warning for those bilge rats who make choppy the calm seas with their knavish software tricks."

Today, said Microsoft is "Talk like a Pirate Day", and there is a web site devoted to it, which you can find here.

The Vole is attempting to draw notice to its own web site, How to Tell, which helps you figure out whether you're running pirate software or not.

Microsoft said: "Because those who try to take the piracy off the high seas and onto their PCs face a fate worse than walking the plank. For they risk cursin' their businesses and being left up a creek without a paddle. They be sinkin' too with no patches to shore up systems, and could catch something far worse than scurvy." µ