Microsoft expands Windows anti-piracy program
MS-Watch | at | by Mike
When it launched its "Windows Genuine Advantage" pilot program in September, Microsoft was hoping 20,000 customers would opt into the voluntary program, via which Microsoft checks whether customers are running counterfeit copies of Windows.
But by a little over a month later, 828,000 customers had opted in, Microsoft officials said Wednesday. And they did so with no real incentives, admitted David Lazar, director of Microsoft's Windows client product management group.