Microsoft complains of British retail chain
Microsoft was awarded the British electronics retailer Comet to court on charges of knowingly creating and selling counterfeit CDs of its Windows operating system.
Microsoft said in a statement on its website that the company's more than 94,000 herstelcd Windows Vista and XP has made and sold to customers who bought Windows PCs and laptops.
Comet is owned by the French retail conglomerate Kesa Electricals, but that is about to sell it to private investors group OpCapita.
A spokesman told Reuters Kesa has said that the CD's Comet as a premium service delivered to customers. Consumers who buy a PC or laptop can make their own herstelcd, but many do not and have a problem when their machine fails. Until 2007, Microsoft gave itself such herstelcd's new with Windows PCs.
According Comet was the supply of herstelcd in the interest of its customers. The company sees the lawsuit over with confidence and will vigorously defend its position.