>>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:".

I quoted from Microsoft's web site, yes, but the finding's are not Microsoft's.

>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.

Taxes, jobs and wages in the US, it looks like to me. Is someones job at one company less important than at another?