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[5]: Time to drop Windows.
by dylansmrjones on Sun 26th Aug 2007 03:58
in reply to "RE[4]: Time to drop Windows."
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aahh..yes... It is the parent poster 
I did read the link - enough to see that it was a completely different issue, and that it did affect updates (by shutting down 60% of the servers - a wise choice - not unlike packages.gentoo.org being offline for a while - but then again - that's even less critical (for some))
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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?