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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."
So wait...You mean to tell me you just called up Microsoft one day and said "Yeah I'd like a pirated version of windows please" And they just handed it over? Yeah smells like BS to me.
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work bought me a laptop that came with a license, and I put linux on my stinkpad, and used its windows 98 license in a virtual machine so I can play alpha centauri
Using OEM licenses on computers other than the one they came with is illegal.
Of all major operating systems, UNIX is the only one originally meant for gaming.
Show me where in my comment I said I was using it on a computer other than the one it came with, and I'll kiss your ass.
Since I didn't say that, why don't you fuck off and try reading my comments before replying to them? A lot of you idiot slashbots have that same problem.
See, the virtual machine is not real, it's imaginary in the sense of actual computers. Windows 98 is indeed running on the same machine for which the OEM license was granted. In fact, since it's done through virtualization, it's even running [almost entirely] right on that machine's CPU.
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