You must be new here.

Microsoft notoriously tolerated pirated Windows and Office installations for about a decade and a half, to solidify their usage as de facto standard and expected. Tolerating unofficial free usage of their latest products is standard procedure for MS.

By recently, you mean since 2007

Their software seems like it. Their sales team is brutal.

Recently? They've been shipping absolute trash for 15 years, and still haven't reached the bottom apparently.