Somebody, probably internally at Microsoft, posted a cracked copy of Office XP to Usenet. Office XP is the soon-to-be-released office suite that has a stringent copy protection scheme built in.
There’s a nice piece of unintentional humor provided by Lisa Gurry, product manager for Office, who said — presumably with a straight face, “Consumers need to be aware this software is not official software and will likely contain problems for them if they choose to install it.”
Will likely contain problems fro users who choose to install it? Doesn’t that describe pretty much every Microsoft product?