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Microsoft has won a case on the corporate use of unlicensed software in China, writes Computerworld. Microsoft for the first time in its history, managed to extract confessions is a Chinese company for the installation of pirated software.

Local Dazhong Insurance Company was fined 2.2 million yuan (320,000 dollars) for installation on corporate computers, pirated versions of Windows XP and applications of Microsoft Office. Total computers Dazhong found 450 copies of pirated software.

The company said that this sum was the largest of all, awards ever Microsoft in China. The representative of Dazhong said that the insurance company plans to appeal the court decision. China ranks first in the world in terms of software piracy. In 2008, according to IDC, the proportion of unlicensed software in the country was 80 percent.

According to the report U.S. Chamber of Commerce, in 2008, producing software for business suffered a loss in piracy in the amount of 2,9 billion dollars.