Microsoft Chief Executive Steve Ballmer told a press conference
on Monday that “Our job now is to get Windows XP done…With a little
bit of luck, we should have it ready by Friday”. The Friday release
date was confirmed by PC makers on Tuesday. In a publicity stunt,
Chairman Bill Gates is expected to deliver the master copies by
helicopter to the manufacturers. Windows XP is due for consumer
release in October.
Two UK companies are being sued by Microsoft for allegedly
selling pirated copies of Microsoft software. The directors of the
two Basingstoke-based companies, Pacific Computers and Taran
Microsystems, face claims of infringing Microsoft’s copyrights and
trade marks by selling the counterfeit products between July 2000
and February 2001.
