Microsoft sued ten partners said the illegal copying of software products

Sue the world's largest software maker Microsoft Corp before, against the seven "Microsoft action pack service" (MAPS) partners and three system builders. Due to their recent breach of contract, illegal copying and resale of the Microsoft Corp software. Microsoft Corp said, "Microsoft action pack service" allows partners to below market discount price to buy Microsoft software products, but they are buying "action" is limited to the internal product testing and development, not to allow them to happen sales revenue -- installed on the computer for sale or sold separately.

In their contract, despite the prohibition of illegal copying and resale of Microsoft Corp in terms of software, but the seven Microsoft action pack service partner still in the auction site resale software of Microsoft Corp. The three system builders also violated the terms of their contracts and replaced them with illegal copies of the software when the auction site was sold. And installed on the computers of their trusted customers.

According to the Microsoft Corp system construction integrated manager John Bull said, in order to maintain the fairness of the system construction, Microsoft Corp hopes to use a fair and legitimate way to deal with the business behavior of system builders. He said: "this improper sales practices hurt the interests of Microsoft Corp partners, these dishonest software wholesalers to sell at a very low cost, damage the legitimate interests of retailers. Their behavior is illegal." Microsoft Corp lawyer Matt Lundy said Microsoft Corp's Microsoft mobile package service partners to get more deposits through the service, further breach of their contract. In the contract with them in the annual deposit limit. Microsoft Corp's first understanding of these issues is being monitored by the Microsoft mobile package service. Microsoft Corp believes that these partners are not willing to cooperate sincerely with the Microsoft Corp, and in the case of a lawsuit filed against partners.

The Microsoft Corp asked the court to issue orders for the seizure and termination of three system builders. In order to ensure that the current and future ten partners to stop their illegal operations, Microsoft Corp asked the court to issue a blocked order in their case. In individual cases, the Microsoft Corp has demanded a fine for them.

In order to prevent other partners from piracy and destruction of the company's trademark and copyright, Microsoft Corp also added a number of lawsuits. The move is not only beneficial to the Microsoft Corp itself, but also to other partners and end users - the future can help retailers and original equipment manufacturers to reduce the cost of software.