[Publius6961]

OK.
I have donned my asbestos outfit. There is always a puzzler when Microsoft refers to "bogus copies" of Windows.
I have visions of hundreds of industrious Asian programmers randomly stringing 000s and 11111s together, packaging it in authentic-looking Windows" boxes and finding a never-ending stream of suckers to sell them to.

Is that about right?

[aft_lizard]

nah, a guy makes an ISO copy of an installation disc,copies it to a blank cd, runs the cd-rom over a laser labeler makes a key generator program randomly assigning a working key for the software puts it in a cheap cardboard box and sales it. No guys needed to type code for it, microsoft did all the work already.

[Happy2BMe]

"I have visions of hundreds of industrious Asian programmers randomly stringing 000s and 11111s together, packaging it in authentic-looking Windows" boxes and finding a never-ending stream of suckers to sell them to."

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I'm sure you heard about the big bust in Asia (Singapore?) where millions of dollars worth of overclocked AMD CPUs had been re-badged as higher rated CPUs and being sold for large profits?

Like I say, counterfeiting would have 90% of the incentive taken out of it if M$ would simply lower the ownership cost to less than $50.