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According to figures published by Microsoft, 35% of the software in the world is thought to be counterfeit or otherwise illegal.

After years of unofficially tolerating piracy as a means of securing market share, Microsoft is now going on the offensive to make sure copies of its software are legitimate.

Microsoft has purchased a software company that specializes in detecting what software is installed on PCs. It is now using the Internet to put piracy detection software into copies of MS-Office on people’s PCs.

Around the world, the Business Software Alliance is setting up schemes to prosecute offenders. For example, in the UK it is offering large cash rewards to anyone who informs against organisations.

Microsoft itself admits customers find it difficult to navigate the complexities of software licensing – making it easy to break the rules by mistake. If you have a copy of MS-Office at work, at school, at home – are you sure where it came from?

Fortunately, there is a completely legal and free alternative. OpenOffice.org is a fully-featured office suite, similar in functionality to MS-Office. OpenOffice.org does everything you need: word processing, spreadsheets, presentations and much more. It can even use MS-Office format files (.doc, .xls, .ppt), so you don’t need to re-type your work. OpenOffice.org does things MS-Office does not, such as create PDF files to give to other people.

If you can use MS-Office, you can use OpenOffice.org 2. Studies have shown it is ten times cheaper to move to OpenOffice.org 2 than it is to upgrade MS-Office.

A poll has indicated 86% of users would prefer to try OpenOffice.org 2 rather than buy MS-Office.

So what are you waiting for? It costs little to try. If you like it, OpenOffice.org 2 is free to use for as long as you like, wherever you like. Peace of mind at lower cost.

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