Microsoft Offers WGA Workaround
News While Microsoft is responding to some of the criticism, it said it will continue to distribute WGA Notifications via the Automatic Updates feature in Windows as a "high priority" update, even though it is not a security update.
[June 28, 2006, 11:20]
Microsoft To Push Out Revised Validation Tool
News The updated WGA Notifications tool will be gradually pushed out via Automatic Updates during the next weeks and months, according to Microsoft. The updated WGA Notifications package includes additional changes in response to continued criticism...
[November 29, 2006, 8:21]
Microsoft Draws Fire For Stealth Test Programme
News The original WGA programme, launched in September 2004, calls for people to validate their Windows installation when they download additional Microsoft software from a Microsoft Web site. The tool, also known as WGA Notifications, is used to...
[June 14, 2006, 9:15]
Planning The Future Of Privacy At Microsoft
News Microsoft has been under fire recently for a program called WGA Notifications that connected to a Microsoft server every time a PC starts up, which was not disclosed. Cullen, Microsoft's chief privacy strategist, has been very involved with the...
[July 3, 2006, 12:10]
Planning The Future Of Privacy At Microsoft
Talkback Not that much later the WGA thing shows up which is anything but a needed security update. Microsoft spend a lot of PR money to get people to turn on Automatic Updates which automaticly installs everything labeled as high priority updates because...
[July 11, 2006, 23:18]
Security Experts Voice IE7 Push Concerns
News Automatic Updates is a Windows feature typically used for security updates, but Microsoft has also used it to push its WGA Notifications tool. Microsoft's plan to push Internet Explorer 7 out via Automatic Updates has alarmed some security experts.
[July 27, 2006, 15:05]
IE7 Will Be 'high-priority' Update
News Automatic Updates is a Windows feature typically used for security updates, but Microsoft has also used it to push its antipiracy tool WGA Notifications. IE 7 will be delivered in the fourth quarter as a "high priority" update via Automatic Updates...
[July 27, 2006, 9:15]
Finally My Last Words On XP SP3, (yeah Right, You Hope So!)
Blog It will attempt to install an Active X object that turns out to be the WGA, the Windows Greatest Aggravation and it will decide whether or not your computer is legit. It forces new settings to be made of Windows Automatic Update and the Firewall.
[June 18, 2008, 19:43]
