WGA Turning Off PCs in the Fall

Surely WGA is just an enhanced version of the activation? No-one seems to complain that if you don't activate within the time limit you can't login after a while :confused:

The phoning home is bad, but with XP Home available now for about £55 I can't see why anyone would not have a legal copy...

Fop said:
Still if they ever do make WGA genuinely mandatory and manage to stop 3rd party update sites like above I'd hope someone takes them to court over it
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Take them to court over what exactly? Stopping people ripping off their products? For the phone-home bit I can understand, but not for potentially disabling the OS or not being able to download things from the Microsoft website .
 
Its not having a legit copy that is the problem.

The problme highlighted, is it effects the legit users. One of those being me, i can't stress how much it annoys me when any software repeatly goes off and makes a connection somewhere. I don't care what its checking, i've paid good money for this product, and i've also paid money to use my connection, not for my OS to go feeding information about my PC and software (Which is personal).

I also get annoyed by the popups generated for activation, and the spyware like behaviour of the WGA.

Palm it off as user security or whatever you like, i hate spam and annoyances, from ANY software, MS get no exceptions here.

And hell yeah i hate the ' you need to activate windows message ' , which usually results in talking to some guy at MS, even when its a fresh XP disk, straight out the packet.

I'm spending extra time to validate and activate my version of windows, that i paid for, took the time to install and want to use, apparently for my own safety from piracy?.......

Its a joke, the intent is good, but the means in which they carry out the intent is somewhere near ***p.
 
Windows is good for only one thing in my opinion playing games.
I have two pc's on kvm windows on my gaming box and linux on the other.
As time passes by its getting easier and easier to playing games on linux
(can play css and unreal2004 with out problem)
Hopefully it won t be to much longer b4 i can delete windows for good.
I agree its harder to activate legal copys off most software on windows than it is too crack it.
This is what i heard by the way having never tried to steal a copy of anything ;)
 
Phil99 said:
Take them to court over what exactly? Stopping people ripping off their products? For the phone-home bit I can understand, but not for potentially disabling the OS or not being able to download things from the Microsoft website .
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Yeah that's the bit that got them into trouble before, that and the data sent and stored.

Even if you click yes on a EULA doesn't make it necessarily legal.

Of course for it to actually be able to disable the OS opens a whole new can of worms.
 
Three words (1 letter and 2 words :P )

I

Dont

Care

I have legit on all my comps anyway :p
They can release as many wga things as they like tbh.
 
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