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Malaysian authorities have begun raiding computer retail outlets offering pirated software amid concerns that illegal copies of Microsoft Corp.’s newest operating system, Windows Vista, are on sale.The strategy marks a shift from crackdowns over the past year that mainly targeted companies using unlicensed software, Ahmad Dahuri Mahmud, the Domestic Trade Ministry’s deputy director general of enforcement, said Friday.”Computer dealers often sweeten computer purchases by offering consumers free (pirated) software pre-loaded onto their personal computers,” Ahmad Dahuri told a news conference.The current clampdown started Thursday with the arrest of a store owner in a Kuala Lumpur suburban shopping mall.

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