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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Speculated Future Statuses by magical_mystery_meat · 2007-02-27 07:49 · Score: -1, Offtopic

O RLY? ya rly no wai no not rly buttsecks? (lowercase for lameness filter)
mod eUp by Anonymous Coward · 2007-02-27 08:29 · Score: -1, Offtopic

markJet. TherEfore is EFNet, and you
Re:Now how about activation by iggymanz · 2007-02-27 09:00 · Score: -1, Offtopic

I'm back at windows 2000 pro sp 4 to run tax software and and some win-peripherals, and that runs inside vmware under Kubuntu. but I'm thinking of going to XP sp 2 to do some other windows-only things. someday I won't need windows at all (MacOSX might be a possibility), but that day isn't today