Company Profile Now the company has grown up worldwide with net income per 2009, US$ 14.569 billion, and workers approximately 93,000 in over 100 countries. *COMING FACE TO FACE WITH PIRAC*Y "Even though we focus on enterprise class software, we see a lot of piracy, and it is a big problem. Mostly it is compliance issues rather than outright piracy. And although we see more of this internationally than in the U.S., the U.S. is still a problem." -- Microsoft Certified Partner, USA Ecosystem members run into piracy and license misuse every day in at least two ways: They find it in their customer base when deploying new solutions or services. They find it in competition with companies that bundle or otherwise incorporate pirated software into their own solutions, sometimes without customer knowledge. The unlicensed software gets into customer environments a number of ways, from counterfeiting and {draw:rect} REPORT A survey commissioned by Microsoft and conducted by IDC, a global provider of market intelligence, in November 2007 reported that more than 80 percent of commercial enterprises across Russia continue to use unlicensed or pirated software. “Many company directors still think procuring software legally is not cost effective and inevitably involves extra expenses like training of IT managers or paying for software upgrades,” said Leonid Klyaiman, Microsoft’s product manager in Russia. “Such ignorance has encouraged a preference for unlicensed software in many companies.” The survey polled directors and IT managers in 500 companies across five federal districts to determine how company executives perceive risks associated with using unlicensed software. Violation of intellectual property rights has long been a sore point in Russia’s relations with the United States. In May, a Perm region court found