While the users worldwide would get an access to the latest anti-piracy update for Windows 7, later this month, China would be an exception; the process will not start in China before the summers as Microsoft tries a softer approach to fighting software piracy in China.

“Users worldwide will automatically start receiving the update later this month, but the process will not start in China until this summer”, said the Microsoft officials, in a statement.

Though, a number of foreign companies have long been complaining about the poor protection of intellectual property rights in China, but the problem lies as much with Chinese users themselves as with laxity in government regulations.

Microsoft caused a backlash among Chinese users, in 2008 when it released an automatic update that turned the computer screen black for pirated versions of Windows XP.

Microsoft will be launching a series of marketing campaigns in China to explain the risks of counterfeit software. It will also guide the users on how they can check the authenticity of their Microsoft software.

“Nearly one in three pirated copies of Windows 7 were found to have malicious code in a recent analysis by Media Surveillance, an anti-piracy services company”, said the Microsoft officials.