Windows Genuine Advantage Gets More Lenient

Posted by kdawson on Tuesday February 27, 2007 @07:46AM from the you-may-already-be-a-pirate dept.

Troglodyte writes in with word that Microsoft is revamping its Windows Genuine Advantage program so that it labels fewer users pirates. WGA now has a third category besides "genuine and "not genuine," called "not sure." Quoting: "[I]t's quite obvious what is going on here: Microsoft has added 'not sure' as a way of cutting down on the number of false positives associated with WGA. As many as one in five PCs were failing WGA checks, but this new setting should both reduce this and give Microsoft the chance to investigate further the kinds of things that are landing folks in the 'not sure' category."

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Darnit! by bmo · 2007-02-27 17:50 · Score: 0, Flamebait

I was hoping that Ballmer would follow through with his threat to tighten the screws with WGA! Indeed, if you are pro- Free Software, you should encourage Microsoft's crackdown on piracy.

I'm all for it. I'm for WGA turning an infringer's computer into a smoking heap.

Every person who installs an illegitimate version of Windows is another person that Microsoft can count on to not look at alternatives.

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BMO