Four top Chinese personal computer makers said on Thursday they would bundle all new home PCs with Microsoft's new operating system in an unprecedented pledge to curb piracy in the market where it is most rampant. The decision could help Microsoft to curtail lost revenues in China, where more than 90 percent of the software installed on computers was pirated last year, an executive of the world's biggest software maker said. The four firms -- China's top PC brand Legend Holdings Ltd, TCL International Holdings unit TCL Computer Technology Co, and the computer units of Great Wall Corporation and Tsinghua Tongfang Co Ltd -- pledged to pre-install the Windows XP system on every new home computer.
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