Microsoft Takes a Stand Against Stealthy Creeps at the Office

Muddled video battles counterfeit software

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Consider yourself on notice: If you buy a counterfeit copy of Microsoft Office, your small business could end up infested by bodysuit-wearing creepers. That's about as much as I can glean from this odd video that Microsoft created to raise awareness of … something. Piracy? Spyware? Identity theft? It's a bafflingly complicated metaphor for what should be a simple message: Don't try to cheap out and buy unlicensed software. Instead, we get some kind of silent performance art.

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