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Paul Thurrott Bitten by WGA
suntory writes "Paul Thurrott, one of the most important Microsoft advocates, has been bitten by Windows Genuine Advantage. As some Slashdot users have reported, Paul installed a bunch of updates in his machine and now Microsoft thinks that he is using pirated software." From the post: "Truthfully, I can only imagine what triggered these alerts. The software was installed to a VM a long time ago and archived on my server. I no doubt used a copy of XP MCE 2005 that I had received as part of my MSDN subscription. If the WGA alerts are to be believed, it's possible that Microsoft thinks I've installed this software on too many machines, though that seems unlikely to me. I can't really say. Anyway, that's what it looks like to be a suspected pirate. Like many people who will see these alerts, I don't believe I did anything wrong. I'm sure that's going to be a common refrain in this new era of untrusting software and companies. Ah well."
Wow, I bet Paul is going to get a lot of hate mail about this. Maybe even personal threats. I think he needs a robot standing guard outside his home to protect him. Something like the ED-209 from RoboCop. Preferably programmed by Microsoft, since he's obviously happy with the way they code things. And if his wife and kids come home one day, maybe dressed in black because it's Halloween or something, and ED thinks they're criminals, and they get shot a few dozen times for not being in compliance, even though they are... ah well.
Dear Slashdot: next time you want to mess with the site, add a rich-text editor for comments.
Your wife uses it because you are there to help her. Throw it at your grandfather and see how many calls you get. Especially when KMail makes your emails disappear because it fucking up the index file, yet again.
/. switched to displaying only the text.
I fail to see how you're unable to install windows; it barely asks you any questions at all. I've only had it fail on faulty hardware.
Don't worry about my karma, its been excellent since
Oh, and to stop the accusations that I'm an MS fanboy before start:
I setup a Linux server in my home in 98 and ran it through various versions of RH until earlier this year.
In 2001 I finally 'took the plunge' and moved to a Linux desktop. I converted that back to Windows earlier this year also. So lets get that straight right now, so I don't have to read all those stupid accusations (which mysteriously stop after I post that info).