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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.
They'll find a hack for Windows, they'll buy Windows, or more than likely they'll just buy a new PC that comes with Windows legally bundled
More likely, they'll upgrade to pirated Windows 98 SE. Problem solved.
If you keep throwing chairs, one day you'll break windows....
so this post was *pure* sarcasm
I'm not sure which word you don't understand, so here are some definitions for you:
Pure: Having a homogeneous or uniform composition; not mixed
Sarcasm: A cutting, often ironic remark intended to wound
I don't see anything I'd classify as sarcasm, but maybe there was something in there you intended sarcastically. I'm not sure what it would be, or how you could intend it sarcastically, but there's always the benefit of the doubt. However, there's no way it's all sarcasm.
It's cool, though, I know a lot of Mac users who drastically overapply the word sarcasm. Maybe it's one of those weird correlations that people love so much.
Are you saying that Windows users are like cold-blooded animals? Because if you are, I might just agree with you.
-matthew
"THERE IS NO JUSTICE, THERE IS ONLY ME." -Death
Sounds about right. I heard there is a website devoted to pirating Windows XP by some guy in Scottlande or someplace. They say he's really crazy 'cuz his wife went into labor the day WGA disabled his security updates an she wouldn't let him figure out how to hack it so when they got home from th hospital he cut her up and buried her in teh yard and then ate his own baby with some chips, oh delicious chips. So they caught him but he managed to grab his decompiler and smuggled it into prison with him and th other convicts tried too take it away from him in th shower so he cut them up and ate them to, in fact he went on a rampage and ate all teh prison guards with some chips, oh delicious chips. And then he sat down at teh warden's desk and wrote angry letters to Micro$oft only stopping when he had to pee in a potted plant in teh corner of the room. After he threatened Bill Gates' life, he found the prison surrounded by th Army and there was a guy on a bullhorn named Dr. Quartermass who was telling him 2 put down teh fork and come out with his hands up. But he managed to escape through th sewers and they couldn't catch him but they found his bag of chips, oh delicious chips. They say he's still hiding to this day in th mountains of Scotchland, the Alpes, updating his website with an old PDA running Windows CE every day. They also say of your are backpacking in teh Alpes that you'd better not carry any chips, oh delicious chips. They say they'll never catch him to because there are laws that protect mountain people and the police are scared to go up there. But he has too come too a city once a month on teh seventh day and he breaks into a house that has a computer and tries to circumvent WGA and he eats anyone at home with chips, oh delicious chips. So the police are hoping too catch him when he goes to the city but so far he's eaten over 819 people and 2,401 bags of chips, oh delicious chips so it seems like there is no stopping him. You may think I'm making all this up but it's the truth and I know it cause I asked my friend who works at Micro$oft and he said it's true so it is.