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[News] Windows Genuine Avengers (WGA) Still Broken and Very Dangerous

  • Subject: [News] Windows Genuine Avengers (WGA) Still Broken and Very Dangerous
  • From: Roy Schestowitz <newsgroups@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Wed, 29 Aug 2007 09:05:37 +0100
  • Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.advocacy
  • Organization: Netscape / schestowitz.com
  • User-agent: KNode/0.10.4
Still no word on cause of WGA outage or Microsoft’s future prevention plans

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| Microsoft officials say they are continuing to investigate how the outage 
| occurred, as well as why someone on the support team inappropriately told 
| users the outage wouldn’t be resolved until August 28. If the team already 
| knows what happened, so far, it’s not saying.   
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http://blogs.zdnet.com/microsoft/?p=677

WGA Meltdown Casts Doubt on Microsoft Reliability

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| Gartner Inc. analyst Michael Silver also dinged Microsoft on the reliability 
| issue. "A system that's not totally reliable really should not be so 
| punitive," he said. "This issue is not really how long it take for Microsoft 
| to fix the problem, but also how when the user can get back on the network to 
| revalidate. What happens when someone's about to get on a plane and won't be 
| able to revalidate for three days?"     
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http://www.pcworld.com/article/id,136451-c,companynews/article.html

Michael Silver is having lunch with Microsoft. They are very close.


Related:

Dvorak: 'Something To Avoid at All Costs'

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| Many in Health IT are moving to all over-the-web 'asp', software-as-service 
| Electronic Medical Records services with total centralized control of data. 
| John C. Dvorak sounds off a note of caution for such a trend with the recent 
| Windows Genuine Advantage server outage...
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http://www.linuxmednews.com/1188267152


Meet Linux Genuine Advantage

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| “Microsoft’s only recognition of the problem has been in an email to a user 
| having trouble, who posted the information here on a Microsoft official 
| forum. Microsoft’s suggestion: Try to validate again on Tuesday. Hey, hope 
| you don’t need your computer over the next four days …”   
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http://www.p2pnet.net/story/13153

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