Windows Vista antipiracy features helps bring in $77M

Windows Vista was shipped with a more tedious anti-piracy features that makes you go the extra step registering and stuff which has finally paid off for Microsoft.

Technology Business Review, Inc has analyzed that Microsoft got an extra $77M from their anti-piracy moves. That is a lot of money for spare change. In an excerpt of the story found here:

The bounce to Microsoft’s bottom line, calculated by Allan Krans, an analyst at Technology Business Review Inc., was $77 million.

“Since the Windows market is so saturated, they’re looking for any niches to increase their revenue line beyond PC growth, and antipiracy is one of those areas,” said Krans. “The opportunity isn’t substantial, but it’s still revenue. If they can tweak an extra $100 million or so a quarter, they’ll take it.”