Microsoft May Have Mistakenly Pegged 2.6 Million As Pirates

Microsoft’s anti-piracy tool has marked more than one in every five copies of Windows as bogus, the Redmond, Wash., developer said Tuesday, while up to 2.6 million users may have been mistakenly pegged as pirates. As it beats the drum about the danger of pirated software, particularly Windows, prior to the release of Vista, Microsoft released some figures from its Windows Genuine Advantage program.

If it wasn’t for companies like Dell who force copies of Windows on people, Microsoft would likely have a much higher number to report. What I would be interested in knowing, is how many people that realize they are using a non-legal version, run out to pick one up? It would just be neat to know how well WGA is actually working for MS in that regard.

Source: Information Week