What's Windows Genuine Advantage? Three Days Off Work.
Blog More precisely, MIcrosoft's WGA servers are down (link via BoingBoing), with the company saying "try again, we should fix them by Tuesday"; the result is that whenever a XP or Vista installation tries to make contact to confirm its legality, it...
[August 25, 2007, 18:59]
Microsoft Disables IE7 Validation Process
News According to a reader poll on ZDNet.co.uk's sister site ZDNet.com, 55 percent of respondents voted that Microsoft had dropped WGA: "To try to grow IE7's market share (at the expense primarily of Firefox) by going after the more technical browser...
[October 8, 2007, 14:11]
Rupert Goodwins' Diary
Blog I've never found anyone outside Microsoft with a good thing to say about WGA, which just goes to show that there are limits to the Orwellian malleability of the English language, even in the hands of experts.
[October 6, 2006, 18:55]
WGA Software Collects Information
Talkback Nobody but M$ knows exactly what info , or how much, WGA is collecting, or what M$ is doing with the information. It just isn't right to give someone open access to your machines, for any reason.
[August 29, 2007, 14:37]
Info Collected By Microsoft With WGA
Talkback .ask the guys at PCProfile as they found out what was being collected.
[September 4, 2007, 4:42]
Shades Of WGA To Come From Other Vendors
Talkback If the Microsoft WGA outage caused this much disruption due to a user error then imagine what will happen when activation measures are deployed badly by more than one vendor - the knock on effects in business will be very disruptive.
[September 4, 2007, 4:39]
Microsoft DRM Tool Locked Out Genuine Users
News Windows Genuine Advantage (WGA) is the mechanism that Microsoft uses to validate genuine copies of the Windows XP and Windows Vista operating systems. Without WGA approval, users are unable to use many of the features of the operating systems.
[August 28, 2007, 17:32]
Apple Files For DRM System Akin To Microsoft
News In August, around 12,000 Windows users found that they could not either register their software, or found that parts of it became unusable, because Microsoft loaded the wrong software during a WGA update.
[December 24, 2007, 12:15]
