A Different Kind of WGA 'Problem'

Ed Bott recently attempted to scout out the problems reported in so many horror stories floating around the net relating to Microsoft's WGA. He did experience problems, however, not the ones that you might expect. He intentionally installed a pirated copy of Windows XP to see how the process worked but was unable to get WGA to recognize his computer as pirated. From the article: "I'm reluctantly running a pirated version of Windows and can't get caught no matter how hard I try. But these same people want us to believe that the WGA software they've developed is nearly foolproof. They claim that all but "a fraction of a percent" of those 60 million people who've been denied access to Microsoft updates and downloads are guilty, guilty, guilty. Right."

Comments

foolproof-just-found-a-better-fool dept.

[industrialvegan]

I just love the name of the department issuing this story, given the content/context of it. LOL!
I'm going off to actually read the article from the link now.

Re:However what might be happening

[in2mind]

RTFA, he used a key from a serials site that was marked as 2 years old. MS is apparently not keeping up with its pirateed key list

What are you talking? Because a person uses a 2 year old Xp pirate key,Microsoft wouldnt detect it as a pirated version?I really cant get your logic.