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Microsoft Smokes Out Office Pirates

Microsoft shifted the focus of its anti-piracy technology from Windows-only this week and began piloting a program that sniffs out counterfeit copies of Office, the application suite that is, after Windows client software, the company's second-biggest money maker.

Dubbed Office Genuine Advantage (OGA), the pilot will be pointed at users running versions localized in Brazilian Portuguese, Czech, Greek, Korean, Simplified Chinese, Russian, and Spanish, said Microsoft Monday when it announced OGA as it also expanded the already-existing Windows Genuine Advantage (WGA) anti-piracy program.

TechWeb

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