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. In the original version, WGA Notifications displayed only a wordy user licence...
[November 29, 2006, 8:21]
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. For the first time, though, Microsoft is offering guidelines on how to remove WGA Notifications.
[June 28, 2006, 11:20]
Microsoft Draws Fire For Stealth Test Programme
News The tool, also known as WGA Notifications, is used to validate the authenticity of Windows software installed on a PC. Although the WGA Notifications tool isn't finished yet, the software doesn't come with the same caveats as other Microsoft beta...
[June 14, 2006, 9:15]
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. Since November last year, however, Microsoft has been pushing out the WGA...
[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]
Microsoft: Don't Sweat Over Software Licensing
News Microsoft faced a lot of heat over WGA Notifications after it delivered a prerelease version of the tool alongside security fixes, perhaps turning Windows users into unsuspecting guinea pigs. Also, WGA Notifications was found to ping a Microsoft...
[June 29, 2006, 13:25]
Fighting Microsoft's Licence Check
News One Web site, for example, lists 15 methods - including step-by-step directions and links to file downloads - to disable Microsoft's copyright-check tools and WGA Notifications warning messages. Recently, the software maker was lambasted over its...
[June 21, 2006, 9:10]
Trust No One, Especially Microsoft
Leader It has emerged that a key part of a new addition to the WGA programme - WGA Notifications, which validates the authenticity of Windows software installed on a PC - is not finished code. What is more, WGA Notifications is being punted out as a...
[June 14, 2006, 17:00]
Microsoft To Publish Its Privacy Rules
News It would be easier to endorse if we could be more confident that Microsoft's own house is in order, which is suddenly a subject of some worry after the WGA issues. Earlier this month, it faced criticism for not disclosing that one of its antipiracy...
[June 26, 2006, 12:10]
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. Microsoft plans to automatically push Internet Explorer 7 to Windows XP users when the browser...
[July 27, 2006, 9:15]
