TECHNOLOGY & TELECOMMUNICATIONS
<i> Times Staff and Wire Reports</i>
Microsoft Cracking Down on Software Piracy: As part of the new campaign, Microsoft will meet one-on-one with computer wholesalers in the United States and Canada to try to persuade them not to buy one copy of a program, such as Microsoft Windows, and load it on hundreds of machines without paying Microsoft a licensing fee. Makers of software for personal computers lose about half their potential revenue to piracy every year, according to analysts who follow the market. PC software companies worldwide had revenue of about $10 billion in 1994. Software piracy is less a problem in the United States than it is abroad, analysts say.
