Re: Microsoft "Genuine Advantage" (for snoops that is)

Walden, this abomination "calls home" without asking the proper owners (me) if I don't find a way to stop it, it does NOT wait seventy days, and in many cases will force you to /_re-_/activate again even though you've already gone through the activation before...Change a little bit of hardware here or there and before you know it you've got an illegal PC.

I said ten years ago I wish Microsoft would have totally enforced its anti-piracy measures in Latin America. When they do, if they don't have the governments locked down, it'll be the biggest Linux boost in history.

And this thing is trying to act like a regular update.

--Alan



Walden H. Leverich wrote:

That clinched the decision on my next PC, which will be a Mac. Unless by
some miracle Linux appears.

Just curious... If I leave my System i off for some period of time (70 days?) I need to reactive my license for OS/400, right? How do you find genuine advantage any different? If anything, at least IBM knows somewhere they got paid for that machine and OS, after all, I don't think there's a hot market for counterfeit copies of OS/400
-Walden
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Subject: [PCTECH] Microsoft "Genuine Advantage" (for snoops that is)



Computerworld on Microsoft's scratch-cards activation idea:

http://tinyurl.com/3d2zua

Their abomination of Microsoft Genuine Advantage has been trying to get
itself on my older XP machine, and I just close the window, but I'm
concerned that one day one of the younger set in the household will
download it.

I know that not one piece of their software on there is pirated.

The article says that "Windows Vista
<http://www.computerworld.com/action/inform.do?command=search&searchTerms=Microsoft+Windows+Vista>
owners, for example, can be forced by Microsoft to reactivate an
already-activated PC, while Windows XP users *can't permanently disable
WGA's
<http://www.computerworld.com/action/article.do?command=viewArticleBasic&articleId=9012762>*
anticounterfeit notifications."

That clinched the decision on my next PC, which will be a Mac. Unless by
some miracle Linux appears.

--Alan