One In Five Windows Installs Is Non-Genuine

Posted by kdawson on Tuesday January 23, 2007 @10:12AM from the false-positives dept.

snib writes "Microsoft disclosed Monday that, according to reports collected by the notorious Windows Genuine Advantage tool on millions of users' PCs, 22% of all Windows installs do not pass its validation tests and have therefore been deemed non-genuine. Quoting: 'Since WGA launched in July 2005, over 512 million users have attempted to validate their copy of Windows, Microsoft said. Of those, the non-genuine rate was 22.3 percent... [T]he Business Software Alliance... reports that 35 percent of the world's software is pirated (22 percent in North America)...'"

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bullshit by Turn-X+Alphonse · 2007-01-23 10:14 · Score: 0, Flamebait

Now give us the figures on how many of these "pirate" copies are users who don't want to buy the same software twice because of bullshit DRM in it.

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Re:Only one in five? by Anonymous Coward · 2007-01-23 10:24 · Score: -1, Flamebait

Not too smart, if you're a legit business.