Chinese markets appeared fake versions of the operating system Windows7 week before officially put on the market, at $ 2.3 per copy.

Statistics estimated the proportion of counterfeit software sold in China by about 80 percent, twice the global average for sales of infringing copies, and four times the sales in the markets of the United States and Japan.

The “early-minus” to copy Windows7 in China, the biggest challenge faced by the major software companies, which seek to make profits in China’s second largest market for PCs in the world.

And Microsoft is preparing to launch a publicity campaign around the world prepare to launch a new version of Windows operating systems, which are priced version of 399 yuan (U.S. dollar equals 6,825 yuan) With a price of 20 yuan counterfeit version.

The company reduced the price last year, Microsoft software version Office2007 for domestic use and for students to 199 yuan from 699 yuan.

The violation of intellectual property rights one of the contentious issues, China’s relationship with its major trading partners despite the strict measures taken against the spread of piracy on a large scale, which includes software and counterfeit goods.

The Court of China jailed four people last August for distributing infringing copies of Windows xp programs produced by Microsoft and is considered the New China News Agency (Xinhua) The largest blow to software piracy.

Said entity Young Director of the European project of China and the Beijing-based “down piracy in China year after year that the Government pay greater attention to them as the narrowing gap between the price of the original and replica

In China and launched a campaign to educate users to the risks associated with infringing copies may be accompanied by viruses, spy software and Microsoft last year launched a campaign of non-traditional in China led to the darkened computer screens of users of fake versions of the programs Windows xp.