Reports started to show up yesterday that Microsoft’s new operating system, Vista, was out in the wild, pirated of coarse. And who else would be doing this so early, before the official release? China, and it costs about $2.50. It is believed that these pirated versions are a hacked Beta release that was publicly available on the Internet, but with a crack so that the 180 day serial number never expires.

I’m still not sure what the demand for this new operating system is yet, I have no plans to upgrade until at least SP1 is out, and at that point I’ll just buy a whole new computer (thinking laptop). In China, the average wages are considerably less then here in America, however Microsoft still insists on charging through the nose for software. This may be a bad business decision, seeing they have more people then any other country in the world and a continuing growth in the tech sector due in large part to the free trade that is now possible between China and the western world.

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