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The brand's certified gold partner KK Systems has fallen from grace, as it was caught pirating the popular software, and even faking certification of authentication.

We have been covering Microsoft a lot lately. But for all the wrong reasons these days. First it was the unrest amongst channel partners in the East and North East regarding the arm twisting technique to increase sales. Now it is about the Microsoft Gold Certified partner KK Solutions in Delhi, which the brand caught recently counterfeiting not just the software but also all the certifications.


It was alleged in the complaint that the suspect was obtaining the counterfeited CDs, packaging material and fake Certification of Authenticity (COAs) from China and after obtaining the genuine product key number, by tampering the genuine products, was putting it on the fake COAs and selling it in the market according to CBI quoted in a Publication. CBI has arrested Kamlesh Jha MD of software company K K Solutions for piracy.


On the one hand Microsoft takes dire actions against its dealers involved in counterfeiting of the software on the other hand the market i

s rife with rumor about the involvement of Microsoft officials in this issue yet there is no conformation from any side. Commenting on this one of the Microsoft partner said on the condition of anonymity, This is a big racket and without the involvement of Microsoft official it is not possible to do that big thing, that also alone by distributor.


Microsoft and its channel has always been unsatisfied with each other and company has always been surrounded by issues with channel like raiding partners mostly opposed by partners; having false trade practices; enforcement etc. In fact commenting on the Microsoft false trade practise issue a partner, Rajeev Kapoor says, This is being done by Anil Sethi- who headed the OEM Business, earlier he was in IBM wherein he was doing the same by dumping the IBM Servers to the partners and again come out with schemes with other partners next month, he is adopting the same here as well, you may ask the MD of Microsoft India to look into