In the past quarter, Microsoft attributed five percentage points of additional growth in Windows desktop licence sales to OEM partners to piracy declines.
Michala Wardell, head of anti-piracy at Microsoft UK, said: “With Windows Vista, we’re making it harder for pirates to counterfeit Windows. We’re seeing a significant decrease in the number of Vista validation failures. This is on top of how we’ve managed to eliminate volume activation exploits, which were a leading source of counterfeit problems.”
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