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Windows Genuine Advantage circumvented
Talkback I mean "Windows Genuine Advantage", come on, how is Microsoft ensuring they aren't pirated an advantage to the average user? All it means is they can pump up the price of Windows (and related software) without fear of the pirating backlash that...
About: Windows Genuine Advantage circumvented
[May 24, 2005, 14:42]
What's Windows Genuine Advantage? Three days off work.
Blog Microsoft's Windows Genuine Advantage - the DRM system that turns chunks of your operating system off if it thinks you're a criminal - now thinks that we're all criminals. So whatever you do, don't make your Windows installation try to call home.
[August 25, 2007, 18:59 in News Blog by Rupert Goodwins]
Rupert Goodwins' Diary
Blog In the same week Microsoft has announced that Vista will shut itself down if not authorised by HQ, it admitted to problems in its Windows Genuine Advantage program already deployed for XP. That information was published on a Microsoft hosted blog...
[October 6, 2006, 18:55 in Rupert's Diary by Rupert Goodwins]
Rupert Goodwins' Diary
Blog And it's also the reason Microsoft is being so daft about some of the implications of Windows Genuine Advantage, or WGA. Windows Genuine Advantage is going to drive more people to open source than any initiative Novell or Mark Shuttleworth could...
[August 11, 2006, 19:15 in Rupert's Diary by Rupert Goodwins]
Shades of WGA to come from other vendors
Talkback Note - The Software Protection Platform (SPP) is the set of anti-piracy technologies that Microsoft is using internally and these are already built into Windows Vista and Windows Server 2008. Don't forget that there is also Office Genuine Advantage...
About: Microsoft DRM tool locked out genuine users
[September 4, 2007, 4:39 by DefenceIT]
Vista PCs to lock out rogue software
Talkback Microsoft’s new Windows Genuine Advantage policy is just what I feared back when the original was introduced. But fears of intrusive interference with my computer were consoled by Microsoft’s claim that WGA was not going to disable my software but...
About: Vista PCs to lock out rogue software
[October 6, 2006, 23:25]
Microsoft pushes antipiracy tool to desktop
Talkback I want to thank Bill Gates and his army of flying monkeys for pushing the "Windows Genuine Advantage" patch out to my Windows XP Laptop yesterday. Now it won't run at all, stopping with a blue screen in the log-on process.
About: Microsoft pushes antipiracy tool to desktop
[May 7, 2006, 4:21]
Here we go again
Talkback After jumping through hoops when I had to comply with the requirement of Microsoft to prove my windows was legitimate, after changeing Windows Genuine Advantage I had to do it again, and again. Yes Microsoft agree my copy is OK, just that I have to...
About: Microsoft gets tough on Office fakers
[October 31, 2006, 11:39 by 48717]
Pasting the crack in windows.
Talkback I think If microsoft wanted to dissable pirated windows with their genuine advantage tool they could easily. Some believe that there is a an unspoken hands off policy towards pirated windows machines in the third world.
About: Who gains from Microsoft's free Morro antivirus?
[December 2, 2008, 0:22 by roger andre]
Microsoft issues bumper patch bundle
Talkback Hmm, it does this just after announcing the 'genuine advantage' verify your copy of windows compulsory test. I smell a rat.
About: Microsoft issues bumper patch bundle
[February 9, 2005, 8:50]
Who Gains ?
Talkback I'm sure MS will imform people with open systems via windows update and the genuine advantage nag tool. As for who gains, I would say the types of home user who just don't bother with security issues in general and aren't aware of the free...
About: Who gains from Microsoft's free Morro antivirus?
[December 2, 2008, 12:26 by roger andre]
Rupert Goodwins' Diary
Blog Stop Bugging Me Bill Windows XP, Genuine Ubuntu, and a Genuine Dell With joy, eradicate another copy of Windows 98 from the world. Go to parents, prepared to exterminate last copy of Windows 98 on my support radar.
[June 16, 2006, 18:50 in Rupert's Diary by Rupert Goodwins]
Microsoft's anti-piracy plan condemned
Talkback The idea of making patches only available to genuine windows users is gonna have a larger affect on microsoft than it may think. If it wasnt possible to copy windows from day one, do you think MS would have the biggest share of home operating...
About: Microsoft's anti-piracy plan condemned
[February 1, 2005, 6:03]
RE: Leaving Windows behind
Blog Comment Problem is the other 'Windows XP' - at its extreme - little or no updates, annoying buggy 'genuine advantage' (no advantage to anyone but MS), nagging you. For day to day office tasks it is easily up there with Windows and no genuine advantage nags...
[June 8, 2009, 9:18 by adamjarvis]
Is Windows 7 greener? Yes, but only by about €50 a year.
Blog Over the last five years I've worked on and off with one of Microsoft UK's most genuine Windows commentators. Paul Foster doesn't have a hint of the 'evangelist' about him and our conversations usually stray between emerging Windows functionalities...
[September 15, 2009, 7:37 in by Adrian Bridgwater]
Vista vs Ubuntu: this time, it's virtual
Blog Of course, I can't just put a Windows OS on my Ubuntu machinery - don't have an unused Genuine Windows Advantage XP or Vista, and to reuse anything would be against the licence. Haven't had time to do any performance testing, but subjectively...
[October 23, 2007, 14:20 in Reviews Blog by Rupert Goodwins]
Rupert Goodwins' Diary
Blog The FAQ that Microsoft has posted regarding the acquisition doesn't mention this most frequently asked question of all; I suspect I'm not alone in grabbing everything I can from the site before the living hell of Windows Genuine Advantage gets going.
[July 21, 2006, 19:15 in Rupert's Diary by Rupert Goodwins]
XP without the CDs
Blog But should Windows 'Genuine Advantage' (an advantage only for Microsoft) get things wrong and out of the blue suspect you have a pirated copy, you won't have a key to feed it. I have just returned from an architects practice who ordered on my...
[September 26, 2008, 12:03 in It shouldn't happen to an IT consultant by Adrian Mars]
Open source community wooed by Microsoft
Talkback Just think about "Windows Genuine Advantage". Have a think about why the major portion of the web is filled with garbage that guns after Windows and other MS solutions. No one would trust you as far as they can throw a Windows setup CD.
About: Open source community wooed by Microsoft
[June 29, 2006, 23:50]
RE: A challenge to all Linux Users in the World
Blog Comment How much would I miss the Vista seen out the Windows and its Genuine Advantage and thrilling XPerience, and the warm fuzzy protectiveness of User Account Control - no I don't mind being interrupted by pop-ups, challenges, freaking Wizards, multi...
[May 30, 2007, 4:03 by fpirrone]
