Microsoft Gulf worked in collaboration with a member of the Business Software Alliance (BSA) and the anti-piracy authorities in Dubai to raid an IT reseller based in Bur Dubai, which was accused to be selling counterfeit Microsoft products.

The consequence of the raid was 125 pieces of perhaps pirated Microsoft software getting confiscated. The software comprised of Windows XP, Windows 7 and Office 2010 among others.

One person has been put under arrest linked with the case and has been accused of criminal behavior by the police.

Dale Waterman, the corporate attorney of Microsoft's corporate attorney for Anti-Piracy for the Middle East and Africa said that the pirates seek of any chance to exploit a customer and use rising sophisticated ways to take advantage of the consumers.

He then provided with some tips as to how pirated software may be avoided.

The high-quality counterfeits that have been designed to fool the customers into thinking that they are getting the original thing have their source in China. The whole package along with even the fake copper hologram CDs and the Certificates of Authenticity come from China.