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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2005-11-13
Microsoft do not want businesses sticking to XP, they're having trouble enough getting them to switch to Vista; if they disable WGA at EOL, then there's no looming deadline to put a kick in the backside of companies that have not moved to Vista yet.
Large companies are running the Corp Edition of XP. It does not activate with MS so pulling the plug on Activation in XP is not going to push companies to upgrade to vista.