Microsoft Calls Today Global Anti-Piracy Day

arcticstoat points out an article at Custom PC, according to which: "Microsoft has announced that today is Global Anti-Piracy Day. Launching several global initiatives, the aim is to raise awareness of the damage to software innovation that Microsoft says is caused by piracy. ... As well as educating people about piracy, Microsoft has also initiated a huge list of legal proceedings that it's taking out against pirates. Microsoft isn't messing about when it says 'global' either. The list of 49 countries that Microsoft is targeting spans six continents, and ranges from the UK and the US all the way through to Chile, Egypt, Kuwait, Indonesia and China." Interestingly enough, unauthorized copies of Vista might not be harming the company all that much: reader twitter was among several to contribute links to a related story at Computer World which highlights Microsoft attorney Bonnie MacNaughton's acknowledgement that pirates prefer Windows XP over Vista and Office 2003 over 2007.

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[morgan_greywolf]

You, too, can speak Microsoft-ese!

Here is a Microsoft-ese to English primer:

Piracy --> copyright infringement
Innovation --> purchasing software technology and companies in order to illegally maintain a monopoly
Retail version --> beta test version
Beta version --> alpha test version
Technology preview --> smoke and mirrors demo
Vista --> abbreviation of 'Windows Hasta la Vista, Baby!', a horribly broken release of Microsoft Windows almost nobody likes
Global anti-piracy day --> Fsck you Linux-using dirty, filthy hippie pirates!