Linked by Thom Holwerda on Wed 28th Jun 2006 12:56 UTC, submitted by John Mills
"It's been known that the Windows Genuine Advantage (WGA) phones home for quite some time now. For most of us, we've come to live with Microsoft's decision to relegate the software to only contacting the company's servers once every few weeks . Of course, the software is only in beta right now, so what might happen once it goes into production? Will it phone home even less? Ed Bott has an idea. Bott has reason to believe that Microsoft might have a special treat in store for those that do not want any part of the WGA. Citing Dave Farber as his source, Bott thinks that the WGA could become mandatory for Windows users. Those that don't want to install the software must suffer the consequences - install it in 30 days or Windows will stop working, period."
Thread beginning with comment 138476
To view parent comment, click here.
To read all comments associated with this story, please click here.
To view parent comment, click here.
To read all comments associated with this story, please click here.
Recent Original Stories
Recent Comments
Headlines
Random Comments
Random Stories
Random OS Link
Member since:
2005-07-06
XP does fail to activate occasionally - you're fortunate if you've never encountered it, but it does happen sometimes. I've never encountered it with any of my computers, but I've seen it happen with a handful of computers that I've reinstalled XP on for others. In those cases, after the online activation failed, I had to attempt to activate by telephone, and then got passed to a human operator who would ask for the same info as the automated process. After it returned "invalid CD key" for the phone tech as well, they've always just given me a confirmation ID.