Microsoft won a court from the Chinese about pirated software
April 23, 2010 – 11:00 pm
Microsoft has won a case on the corporate use of unlicensed software in China, writes Computerworld. Microsoft for the first time in its history, managed to extract confessions is a Chinese company for the installation of pirated software.
Local Dazhong Insurance Company was fined 2.2 million yuan (320,000 dollars) for installation on corporate computers unlicensed versions of Windows XP and applications of Microsoft Office. Total computers Dazhong found 450 copies of pirated software.
The company said that this amount was the largest of all, awards ever Microsoft in China. The representative of Dazhong said that the insurance company plans to appeal the decision of the court, reports Lenta.ru.
China ranks first in the world in terms of software piracy. In 2008, according to IDC, the proportion of unlicensed software in the country stood at 80 percent.
According to the report U.S. Chamber of Commerce in 2008, producing software for business suffered a loss on the actions of pirates amount of 2,9 billion dollars.
