——— As taken from Softpedia News – February 10, 2007 —————–
Bill Gates also launched Windows Vista, the 2007 Microsoft Office System and Microsoft Exchange Server 2007 on the Romanian market.
Gates revealed to the public that Romanian specialists were also involved in the development of the three products, including the employees of GeCAD and antivirus and mail software server Romanian developer acquired by Microsoft in 2003.
President Basescu was responsible for the discordant note of the event when he praised software piracy as being involved in the educational process of the Romanian youth. He culminated associated piracy with a positive investment.
“A bad thing, piracy, became in the end an investment in friendship toward Microsoft and Bill Gates, an investment in educating the young generation in Romania which created the Romanians’ friendship with the computer,” Basescu babbled.