WGA bites legitimate customers

news article released on: 27 August, 2007

Microsoft has blamed a server error for a glitch in its Windows Genuine Advantage (WGA) program that incorrectly reported many legitimate installations of Windows XP and Windows Vista as pirated. WGA is a tool used to fight against piracy of the Windows operating system and is delivered through Automatic Updates. An XP installation found to be pirated is blocked from software updates and ...

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plazma247

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haah looks to me he was halfway putting his money where his mouth was, then he turned YELLA and decided not to publically bash microsoft mistake in fear of pissing off microsoft.

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WGA is crap

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There are modded versions of XP-SP2 available on the net that pass WGA & allow updates from the M$ site directly. Some install in less than 10 mimutes flat. What more can ask for?

I wonder what percentage does $29 billion make up as compared to total revenues of all software officially sold? Would give one an idea of piracy levels.

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I know that this doesn't happen frequently, but I've read about it enough to really make you wonder what "advantages" genuine software provides. Never seen a problem on pirated/cracked/patched systems.

As far as updates, Firefox has a plug-in that serves as an excellent workaround, and there are at least two other sites that offer the MS updates.

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WGA= When Geeks Attack. :P

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