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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]
Microsoft DRM Tool Locked Out Genuine Users
News The problem arose at the weekend when users of genuine Microsoft software found that their software could not be registered or that some parts of it became unusable, because WGA believed it to be counterfeit.
[August 28, 2007, 17:32]
Microsoft Offers WGA Workaround
News The updated WGA Notifications package includes changes that respond to criticism Microsoft has faced over the software, the company said. While WGA Notifications won't "call home" to Microsoft, WGA Validation still periodically checks in with...
[June 28, 2006, 11:20]
Windows 'piracy' Checks Rounded Again
News Microsoft's efforts to curtail counterfeiting hit a snag when hackers discovered a new way to bypass its Windows Genuine Advantage (WGA), only days after the licence-checking software's official debut.
[August 1, 2005, 12:40]
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 Disables IE7 Validation Process
News Windows Genuine Advantage (WGA) is part of Microsoft's Genuine Software Initiative. Microsoft said that it had dropped the requirement for WGA for security reasons. I think IE7 adoption is too low according to Microsoft's tastes, partly because...
[October 8, 2007, 14:11]
Microsoft To Push Out Revised Validation Tool
News The updated WGA Notifications package includes additional changes in response to continued criticism Microsoft has faced over the software, the company said on Tuesday. WGA Notifications, part of Microsoft's effort to combat software piracy...
[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. Microsoft notes that this is "pre-release software" in the...
[June 14, 2006, 9:15]
Trust No One, Especially Microsoft
Leader Launched in September 2004, WGA asks people to validate their Windows installation when they download additional Microsoft software online. The already controversial Windows Genuine Advantage (WGA) programme - where users authenticate their copy of...
[June 14, 2006, 17:00]
Fighting Microsoft's Licence Check
News In past weeks, reports have emerged that the WGA Notifications software connects to a Microsoft server each time the PC is started - something Microsoft didn't previously disclose. The first time a computer owner runs WGA to check if their version...
[June 21, 2006, 9:10]
Microsoft Outage Down To 'human Error'
News According to Microsoft's Alex Kochis, senior product manager for WGA, two things happened that should not have. The wrong tape was loaded by accident, resulting in WGA treating users' legal software as illegal or counterfeit.
[August 29, 2007, 13:16]
Second WGA Lawsuit Faced By Microsoft
News Although the WGA feature is designed to validate the authenticity of Windows software installed on a user's PC, it recently raised the ire of some users when Microsoft began delivering the WGA prerelease as a "high priority" item automatically...
[July 6, 2006, 9:45]
Microsoft Antipiracy Tool 'acts Like Spyware'
News The WGA Notifications program checks a server-side configuration setting to determine if WGA should run or not," a Microsoft representative said in an e-mailed statement. Microsoft launched WGA in September 2004 and has gradually expanded the...
[June 8, 2006, 9:10]
Planning The Future Of Privacy At Microsoft
News Cullen, Microsoft's chief privacy strategist, has been very involved with the issue and readily admits that the software maker dropped the ball on WGA Notifications. Microsoft has been under fire recently for a program called WGA Notifications that...
[July 3, 2006, 12:10]
Resellers Slam Black Market In Microsoft Software
News WGA is part of Microsoft's ongoing commitment to protecting its customers from software counterfeiting and to helping support partners through education, engineering and enforcement of policies and laws," he added.
[September 14, 2005, 14:05]
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]
Microsoft's Licensing Check Rounded Again
News WGA is a stepped-up effort by Microsoft to increase the number of Windows users that are actually paying Microsoft for its software. For the software maker, the news is not the first time people have attempted to outwit WGA.
[August 8, 2005, 9:35]
Microsoft Targets Counterfeiters On UK Auction Sites
News WGA requires people to validate their version of Windows as properly licensed before allowing access to additional Microsoft software downloads. Many of the alleged infringing sellers were identified through tips submitted by consumers through...
[October 31, 2006, 8:20]
Wine Maker Relaxed Over Microsoft's 'blockade'
News Last month Microsoft said from the middle of 2005 customers will need to verify that their copies of Windows are genuine before downloading updates and add-on tools, through a programme, called Windows Genuine Advantage (WGA).
[February 23, 2005, 12:00]
Microsoft: Don't Sweat Over Software Licensing
News Changes made this week to Microsoft's Windows Genuine Advantage (WGA) licence management program have caused mixed feelings among users, but the company has insisted its licensing strategy is mainly aimed at helping users, not penalising them.
[June 29, 2006, 13:25]
