Nick Cole

Scotland

Director

How do they really know? Or are they just extrapolating to support an argument for greater controls or intrusion?

In my experience the source disk may be one of only dozens (or hundreds) that is routinely used. If there is a mismatch between the numbers of licences bought and used then that is indicative of perhaps underreporting, but nothing more. And how are users/purchasers really supposed to know whether or not a disk is legitimate when it is invariably bought in good faith.

And how do they know it is businesses? Or again is that an extrapolation from the update validity checking?

And of course Microsoft would try and allege this case wouldn't they?