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WGA Turning Off PCs in the Fall?
thesaint05 writes "We all know about Microsoft's WGA initiative that started last July. Most of us were troubled to learn that the WGA has been 'phoning home' to Microsoft at every boot. Well, get ready, because eventually Microsoft may be turning off copies of Windows without WGA installed. According to a Microsoft technician, 'in the fall, having the latest WGA will become mandatory and if its not installed, Windows will give a 30 day warning and when the 30 days is up and WGA isn't installed, Windows will stop working, so you might as well install WGA now.'" A new version of WGA was released on Tuesday and, at least for the time being, Windows users have the option of removing WGA from their systems.
What you're talking about is simply not likely to happen. Companies don't just cutting off their customers for no good reason. If you buy into this kind of logic, you REALLY should not also own a cell phone, a land line telephone, or use electricity. ANY of these things could be cut off at any time (but are as likely to be cut off for no reason as your copy of Windows would be). Get a grip, and welcome to the 21st century.
That's like selling me a car and telling me that if I refuse to put a spoiler on the back that I won't be allowed to drive it.
No, it's like someone selling you a crappy car not once, not twice, but several times, complete with the spoiler you don't like (a very strange analogy : ). Then you decide the next year to go back to the same dealer and buy the same crappy model and complain that it's crappy and has a spoiler you didn't want !?!?!?!?!
If you don't like their attitude, choose a fucking alternative and make the world a better place.
If you can't live without your games or application x which is 'essential', continue to deal with Microsoft Windows and take your lumps (and don't expect them to treat you well if you still come back for more).
Until MS dips into their war chest and has the reactos project shut down. You and every other hippy in this place seems to forget that MS owns the justice department; once reactos becomes any kind of viable threat -- they're shut down. Period.
Why can't you fucking hippies get that through your thick skulls?
>> Well, I think I exhausted my vocabulary coming up with the subject line, so I'll wait for responses.
> FUCKING bullshit!
MOTHER FUCKING bullshit!
... that nobody really cares about anymore. Not only is this story not interesting, but its OLD. Nobody gives a crap about how many Futurama references you can pack into an article about a wearable chip that happens to run Linux or about the complete lack of enthusiasm or industry adoption of Novell's vaporware. This is really sad. Slashdot was never that spectacular, but its reached a point now where there might be one article a week that I am actually interested in enough to click on and read. It's not that there just aren't interesting things to read anymore, its quite simply shit editing by the editors.
/. bashing rant. Be my guest and destroy my karma b/c I likely won't be needing it anymore. Insert obligatory 'I'm moving to digg because slashdot blows and is poorly maintained' comment.
Ok, I'm done with my
We've got MOTHER FUCKING bullshit on this MOTHER FUCKING plane!