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21. January 2003 - Tuesday |
Pirate software losing ground
BELGRADE – The use of pirate copies of Microsoft software in Yugoslavia has dropped by about 25 per cent in the past four months, thanks to a campaign for
legalized software, the company’s Yugoslav representatives said today.
The company estimates that of about 470,000 personal computers in Serbia, only 36,000 are using legally-obtained software.
Microsoft’s local director, Franjo Ridzi, said that the anti-piracy campaign was aimed at helping the users of legal software to increase productivity.
He added that it was up to the state to police software piracy, while Microsoft would take an education and training role in software control.
Microsoft representative Aleksandar Bojovic announced that a Serbian language version of the company’s flagship product, Windows XP, would be released next month.
The first version will use Roman script, but Serb nationalists need not despair: a version in Cyrillic text will be available later in the year.
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