You will be surprised to know that the top pirated software on the Internet includes anti-virus programs followed by AutoCAD and Adobe Photoshop.
The CD/DVD burning software from Roxio also seem to more popular among software pirates than Nero. And its strange that Microsoft Office is missing in the following list of most pirated software programs compiled by the Software Industry Association – SIIA Anti-Piracy 2007 Year in Review
Adobe – Adobe Acrobat, Adobe PhotoShop, Adobe DreamWeaver, Adobe Creative Suite
Symantec – Symantec Norton Anti-Virus, Symantec PC Anywhere, Symantec Norton Ghost
McAfee – McAfee VirusScan, McAfee Internet Security Suite
Others – Autodesk AutoCAD, Roxio Easy CD/DVD Creator, Roxio Toast Titanium, Ipswitch WS_FTP, Nero Ultra Edition 2007, Intuit TurboTax, Intuit Quicken Home and Business
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Reader Comments
No Microsoft Office . This is surprising.
Written by Madhur Kapoor on 02.25.08
No Microsoft Windows in the list!!! No Office!!! Is this a proper survey?
Written by Gopinath M on 02.25.08
SIIA doesn’t care about Microsoft … they don’t fund it so Office isn’t included.
Written by Bob Sherunkel on 02.25.08
WS_FTP is a free program for home use on the version I have.
Written by Seymore Butz on 02.25.08
I guess the alternative to Microsoft office would be open office org(free), hence no need to have a pirated version. Also many could use Microsoft office at work if available…
Written by Michael on 02.25.08
yup. Open office is the reason people aren’t stealing Microsoft Office. A great program(s) that does everything MSOffice does but it’s free. Why would anyone bother to get the official MS Office?
I’d be interested to know how many of us use it at home (of course everyone uses MS Office at work)
Written by Steve-O on 03.24.08
You guys are right with Open Office why would people go over Ms office ? Except the Ms Office 2007 version it has a real fancy features the SmartArt.
I think with opensource, freeware nowadays people can survive to do their computing needs without doing a piracy.
Not to mention Linux, even with Windows alone as the original software people can still happy with their computers.
Written by Pure Legal Computing on 10.06.08
The only surprise to me is the Anvti-Virus. It’s funny that people steal crappy Anti-Virus when there are better free products out there.
Before Office07 the only reason to pirate Office03 was because it was faster than Open Office. Since Microsoft kinda screwed that up with useless features, Open Office can now compete again.
Written by Chris on 12.05.08