Microsoft plans better disclosures for piracy monitoring tool

June 7, 2006

(AP) -- Microsoft Corp. acknowledged Wednesday that it needs to better inform users that its tool for determining whether a computer is running a pirated copy of Windows also quietly checks in daily with the software maker.



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