Microsoft UK changes tactics with license dodgers

"Microsoft will take a new approach toward mid-size companies it suspects of using unlicensed software, sending a series of letters culminating in a threat of legal action from the Business Software Alliance (BSA), a company official said Monday.

The BSA has 100 piracy investigations ongoing against U.K. businesses, it said last month. Some 27 percent of the software used by U.K. businesses is illegal, the BSA said, citing statistics from market analyst IDC.

So far, Microsoft will use the new approach only in the U.K., Dhaliwal said.

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