>>I would put this "information" clearly into the "crap" category, tainted with extreme self-interest on the part of Microsoft.
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>FWIW, these are not Microsoft's findings. Its the Business Software Alliance's.

Well it was you who told me that they came from MS. Here's what you wrote:"As for piracy not being high in the US, this is hwat I see from MS:
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And as I said, those figures are meant to impress the reader/hearer, but a moment's thought has one asking one's self: Who's taxes?...Who's jobs?...Who's wages? They tell us nothing in fact.