Office users

Users of Office office applications worldwide will face a mechanism to check the legitimacy of software similar to Microsoft's Genuine Genuine (WGA) testing mechanism.

Microsoft said the Office Genuine Advantage (OGA) software has been "quietly" tested in recent months. OGA will require all users to pass Office's legality check process to use this suite. There is no mechanism to allow users to bypass this test mechanism or remove OGA similar to what happened with WGA.

Starting from October 27, everyone who uses Office 'pirated' applications will no longer be able to download Office Templates or anything related to Office like clip-art, add. -on . To be able to download, users are forced to pass the legality check of the Office suite.

And starting January 27, 2007, if you don't use a legitimate version of Office, users don't expect to download updates for this suite. Or rather, at this time OGA officially took effect on a global scale.

Microsoft said it will continue to give users who have mistakenly purchased a "pirated" Microsoft Office suite a fully licensed version. However, users have to complete the procedure to prove that they have been mistakenly bought "pirated" software in accordance with Microsoft procedures, as well as providing such pirated software CDs.

If users do not have enough evidence to prove they have bought a 'pirated' Office, they still receive the offer. Microsoft will reduce the purchase price for Office suites that are fully licensed to them.

Analysts assessing this move by Microsoft are also part of an effort to combat piracy using the company's two most famous products and also the "golden egg" of digital software firms. a world: Windows operating system and MS Office office suite.

Also recently, Microsoft said it had a plan to bring to court those who took advantage of popular auction sites to sell its pirated software. Under this plan, the total number of lawsuits will reach 50.

The Software Business Association's statistics show that about one-third of the software installed on PCs worldwide in 2005 is piracy software. This is equivalent to billions of dollars in damage to the global software industry.

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