{"id":1051,"date":"2012-01-04T13:46:16","date_gmt":"2012-01-04T13:46:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/?p=1051"},"modified":"2012-01-04T13:59:59","modified_gmt":"2012-01-04T13:59:59","slug":"microsoft-sues-uk-retailer-for-selling-fake-windows-cds","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/software\/1051\/microsoft-sues-uk-retailer-for-selling-fake-windows-cds\/","title":{"rendered":"Microsoft sues UK retailer for selling fake windows CDs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Microsoft Corp said it is suing Britain&#8217;s second-largest electronics dealer Comet Group Plc for allegedly creating and selling &#8220;counterfeit&#8221; CDs of its flagship Windows operating system.<\/p>\n<p>In a statement on its website, Microsoft said the retailer created more than 94,000 sets of Windows Vista and XP recovery CDs and sold them to customers buying Windows-loaded PCs and laptops.<\/p>\n<p>Comet is owned by French retail conglomerate Kesa Electricals but is in the process of being sold to private equity group OpCapita.<\/p>\n<p>A Kesa spokesman told Reuters that Comet was providing the disks as a service to its customers.<\/p>\n<p>Consumers buying PCs or laptops could create their own recovery CDs but many did not, and faced problems when their computers failed, he said.<\/p>\n<p>The recovery disks used to be provided by Microsoft or the PC maker but they stopped doing that in 2007, the spokesman said.<\/p>\n<p>Comet believes the supply of the recovery CDs was in the best interests of its customers and &#8220;has a good sense of its claim and will defend its position vigorously,&#8221; he said.<\/p>\n<p>Kesa shares were down 5 percent at 68.15 pence at 1153 GMT on the London Stock Exchange on Wednesday<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Microsoft Corp said it is suing Britain&#8217;s second-largest electronics dealer Comet Group Plc for allegedly creating and selling &#8220;counterfeit&#8221; CDs of its flagship Windows operating system.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":1057,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[25,171,169],"class_list":["post-1051","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-software","tag-active","tag-comet","tag-microsoft"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1051","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1051"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1051\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1065,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1051\/revisions\/1065"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1057"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1051"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1051"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1051"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}