Pirated Windows 7 Moving in China

The world's largest software, Microsoft Corp. plans to release Windows 7 operating system on 22 October. But today, pirated copies of Windows 7 was already circulating in China. It is not clear from where the hijackers in China to get Windows 7 for software and illegally duplicated.

Reuters reported, Windows 7 pirated DVDs in China sells for 20 yuan aka $ 2, 93 per chip. Whereas the original price of Windows 7 is expected to reach USD320 (approximately Rp3 million) per license. The presence of Windows 7 pirated in China before the official launch of the original software, confirmed that China is one of the hijackers of the most advanced countries in the world.

Research firm International Data Corp. (IDC) estimates, approximately 80 percent of software used in China is pirated software. Though China is the second largest computer market in the world. That is, the use of pirated software in Chia is still very much.

Gartner Inc. analyst Matthew Cheung added that piracy in China will not be stopped siftware producers keuali able to sell products at lower prices. Cheung confirmed, the population of China today prefer to buy pirated software because the price of genuine software was too expensive.

"The average student living in China at a cost of 400 Yuan (approximately 550 thousand) per month. How could they buy valuable program 2000 yuan. The same is true for most consumers in China," Cheung said.

Microsoft apparently realized also the issue of purchasing power of China's population, therefore, in the years before Microsoft cut the price of Office 2007 Home Edition to only 199 yuan. But the price of genuine software was still 15 times higher than the price of pirated software.

Business Software Alliance (BSA) which formed the producers of software, including Microsoft, estimates that piracy in China caused losses of more than $ 6, 6 billion in the year ago.