Linked by Thom Holwerda on Sat 25th Aug 2007 19:52 UTC, submitted by shykid
"Late last night we started receiving reports from readers experiencing problems with Windows Genuine Advantage authentication. Users of both Windows XP and Windows Vista were writing to say that they could not validate their installations using WGA, and one user even said that his installation was invalidated by the service. We contacted our sources at Microsoft, who told us off the record that the company is aware of a major WGA server outage affecting users across the globe. Microsoft is telling users who are affected that they should 'try again' later, with some support techs telling readers that Microsoft is aiming to have a fix in place by Tuesday, August 28th."
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RE[3]: Time to drop Windows.
by dylansmrjones on Sun 26th Aug 2007 00:51
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RE[4]: Time to drop Windows.
by ctl_alt_del on Sun 26th Aug 2007 02:19
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"It is not even remotely comparable to the WGA-breakdown. It is more comparable with Windows Update being inaccessible. Two quite different scenarios."
I'm assuming you were actually replying to the 'parent' post, considering I said:
"Not exactly on the same scale as this Microsoft WGA 'SNAFU'! "
And by the way, the Ubuntu update functionality was never at risk (if you would have bothered to read the linked article, that would be apparent). Settle down, I'm on your side, I said the WGA outage wasn't comparable to the Ubuntu partial outage, so what's your point?
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"I think it's time you wake up and realise that even with redundancy, it's technology and things can break. Didn't Ubuntu servers have an outage last week? Gee, I guess it's time to drop Ubuntu as well."
Are you referring to this incident?:
http://www.linuxinsider.com/rsstory/58929.html
Not exactly on the same scale as this Microsoft WGA 'SNAFU'!
Anyway, it "seems" to be resolved:
http://blogs.msdn.com/wga/archive/2007/08/25/validation-issue-fix.a...
Glad it didn't take 3+ days to fix, as I assume MS is as well. That would be difficult to explain away.