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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.