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Originally Posted by DamianJ
They seem to be doing just fine despite the horrendous piracy they suffer:
Microsoft reported its net income surged 23 per cent to dollar 23.15 billion on record high revenue of dollar 69.94 billion in the fiscal year that ended June 30.
http://www.dawn.com/2011/07/22/micro...d-revenue.html |
That may be, but they send teams of anti-piracy guys all over the world (working with the local police) to crack down on foreign nations selling their pirated software. I've seen them literally shut an entire shopping mall down before in Bangkok. So they do care about the issue, which means it does cost them money. They are just lucky enough to make much more than they are losing. Though, I wonder how much they spend sending these guys all over, and if it is really worth it.