We started off our polls with a survey of people which have been victimized by fake illegal copies of Microsoft Windows.

As anticipated, most people had genuine Windows installed. A very small percentage of those running non licensed versions said they would leave it as it is but generally most said they were going to do something about it in the near future.

Media and software piracy costs vendors millions of dollars each year. This deficit could be enough to wipe out startups and small companies, which need to reinvest those funds into research and development.