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Genuine Interoperability Between Standards
White Papers However, the realisation of this potential can only be achieved if the industry embraces the concept of genuine interoperability, including past investments by operators in networks, to create a completely open mobile platform.
[September 18, 2003, 7:10]
There's Nothing Like The Real Thing: Genuine Software Is A Win-Win For Customers, Microsoft And Partners
White Papers Microsoft's genuine software programs - which are more than a year old - enable customers to quickly and easily verify if they are running an authentic version of Microsoft Windows or Office, using a validation mechanism through the Windows...
[March 7, 2007, 0:00]
Staffing Service Improves Productivity And Service With Genuine Software
White Papers With these requirements identified, Jawood turned to the Center for Computer Resources, a Microsoft Gold Certified Partner, for solutions built on genuine Microsoft software, including Microsoft Windows XP Professional with Service Pack 2.
[August 13, 2008, 1:03]
Windows Genuine Advantage Circumvented
News Researcher Debasis Mohanty outlined what he said was a technique to trick Microsoft's Windows Genuine Advantage validation check in a posting to the Full Disclosure security mailing list on Monday. We expected counterfeiters to try a number of...
[May 24, 2005, 9:05]
Windows Genuine Advantage Notifications
Downloads Windows Genuine Advantage Notifications is a tool to help reduce software piracy. This tool will confirm that the copy of Windows installed on the PC is genuine and properly licensed. If it is not genuine, the tool will provide periodic reminders...
[August 22, 2007, 10:18]
The Genuine Advantage In Windows' Woes
Leader This weekend, the Windows Genuine Advantage system went offline. Windows Genuine Advantage is a designed-in failure mode, and that's just not very clever. In name and nature, Windows Genuine Advantage is the perfect example of how badly unbalanced...
[August 28, 2007, 16:29]
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. Remember when we said that DRM and its ilk were such a very bad idea because...
[August 25, 2007, 18:59]
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? How on earth is this an "advantage" to users, let alone a "genuine" one? I love the funny names large companies come up with.
[May 24, 2005, 14:42]
Microsoft's Genuine Advantage Hits Problems
News The problem is with Windows Genuine Advantage (WGA), Microsoft's licensing tool, which offers Windows users more secure software in return for their conformance with a vigorous Microsoft licensing strategy.
[October 5, 2006, 14:05]
Microsoft DRM Tool Locked Out Genuine Users
News Microsoft's Windows Genuine Advantage servers experienced severe disruption over the weekend, stopping users validating their Microsoft software. Windows Genuine Advantage (WGA) is the mechanism that Microsoft uses to validate genuine copies of the...
[August 28, 2007, 17:32]
Spam Law Risks Blocking Genuine Sales Pitches
Talkback Surely any unsolicated e-mail is classed as spam by the recipient. Why should companies be able to bypass these rules and still fill up our mailboxes with product information and offers that we are not concerned with.
[April 7, 2004, 13:01]
Genuine Disadvantage More Like
Talkback The idea of a local Office apps is just so 1990s - and indicative of how behind the curve MS is - Genuine Disadvantage more like. For anyone who's failed the GWA advantage test that Microsoft has set - dowload OpenOffice or try one of the excellent...
[October 31, 2006, 11:40]
Effective IT Management: Using Genuine Portfolio Management Techniques For Better IT Control
White Papers It is a difficult time to be an IT executive. They are in the norm if the business executives at their company expect them to continue to deliver incremental improvements, despite static or decreasing IT budgets.
[March 2, 2004, 11:20]
Genuine Businesses Affected
Talkback Regardless of the cause or owner of this particular problem, it is always the small businesses that are affected. We host three small business websites and have recommended Lycos to at least 5 other website owners.
[November 17, 2006, 17:59]
Genuine Sound Recorder
Downloads A Powerful Sound Recorder, which can directly digitize the recordings of music cassette tapes, Internet streaming audio, radio, and meetings directly to your hard disk, creating popular MP3 or wave sound files on the fly.
[March 22, 2006, 7:01]
Spam Law Risks Blocking Genuine Sales Pitches
News The new Spam Act may be designed to stop spammers but it is also likely to catch legitimate businesses selling their products and services online. Clearswift Asia Pacific managing director Chy Chuawiwat said at a Spam Forum today "chances are that...
[April 7, 2004, 12:30]
MyDoom: Prevention And Cure
Talkback I've just posted this a message on "The Scream" suggesting that taskmon.exe is a genuine Windows 98SE and should not be deleted. Maybe a genuine Me file too.http://www.the-scream.co.uk/forums/showthread.php?
[January 29, 2004, 9:47]
UK Firm Shipping 'real' PIII-based Systems
News A sales rep for Digital Networks UK said that his company has obtained genuine Intel PIII chips "from a supplier who imports them from the US. The rep added that the markings on the processors proved that they were genuine PIIIs.
[February 11, 1999, 11:47]
Microsoft Disables IE7 Validation Process
News Microsoft is to allow users of Windows XP to download Internet Explorer 7 without having to gain Windows Genuine Advantage authentication. Windows Genuine Advantage (WGA) is part of Microsoft's Genuine Software Initiative.
[October 8, 2007, 14:11]
Microsoft Offers WGA Workaround
News Microsoft released a new version of Windows Genuine Advantage Notifications on Tuesday and detailed how to remove the controversial antipiracy software. Windows Genuine Advantage is a stepped-up effort by Microsoft to boost the number of Windows...
[June 28, 2006, 11:20]
