Hi Roscoe,

From reading this and other threads in this group regarding Vista piracy in
China, I think Microsoft realizes that there's nothing it can do about
piracy there, especially as it appears to be sanctioned -- at least
unofficially -- by both Microsoft and its business partners in that country.

Microsoft makes up the dollars lost in piracy there by charging inflated
prices for its customers here in the USA. In effect, those of us in the USA
who buy Vista or purchase machines with Vista already preinstalled, are
subsidizing the piracy.

Microsoft is making the profit for worldwide sales of Vista that it's
established in its business model, those in China are getting it for
nothing -- and we USA customers are paying the bill.

Alan

"Roscoe" <me@home.net> wrote in message
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>> .... However, what confuse me is that Microsoft should already known that
>> in
>> China, XP VLK piracy were indeed done by dishonest Govenment sectors and
>> Business partners. So now Microsoft should eliminate any kind of Volume
>> License in China. All Windows sold in China must be activated one by one
>> against servers in headquater USA.[/color]
>
> Maybe MS just doesn't really care.[/color]