Re: WGA Hacked?! Get a Fair and Balance Perspective!

"kurttrail" <dontemailme@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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> Winux P wrote:
>> Compulsory WGA??? What! Who are these people? For what purpose would
>> this be for? Speed up downloads? Wouldn't it take download time + get
>> an authenicated check? Rather than just download time?
>>
>> Who and what would WGA stop from downloading\updating anyway? My
>> windows is already WGA'd, I thought this happened when MS activated
>> it.
>
> It is for nothing but MS flexing its muscles over its paying customers.
> WGA is separate from WPA. The former know as Validation, and the latter
> as Activation. And they ar both separate and distinct from Registration.
> And MS expects all its paying customers to learn the difference, learn the
> differing rules of each, and to fetch when MS tell them to. It's getting
> to the point where the OS is technically easier to use, than knowing and
> complying with all of MS rules & policies surrounding its copy-protection
> schemes!
>
> --

Kurt the customers don't need to know or understand anything in particular,
activation can be one click and once they have the control installed then
WGA will be invisible to them too.
Only those not using genuine licensed product will have an issue.

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"kurttrail" <dontemailme@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
news:uU8d8beYFHA.4024@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Winux P wrote:
>> Compulsory WGA??? What! Who are these people? For what purpose would
>> this be for? Speed up downloads? Wouldn't it take download time + get
>> an authenicated check? Rather than just download time?
>>
>> Who and what would WGA stop from downloading\updating anyway? My
>> windows is already WGA'd, I thought this happened when MS activated
>> it.
>
> It is for nothing but MS flexing its muscles over its paying customers.
> WGA is separate from WPA. The former know as Validation, and the latter
> as Activation. And they ar both separate and distinct from Registration.
> And MS expects all its paying customers to learn the difference, learn the
> differing rules of each, and to fetch when MS tell them to. It's getting
> to the point where the OS is technically easier to use, than knowing and
> complying with all of MS rules & policies surrounding its copy-protection
> schemes!
>
> --
> Peace!
> Kurt
> Self-anointed Moderator
> microscum.pubic.windowsexp.gonorrhea
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> "Trustworthy Computing" is only another example of an Oxymoron!
> "Produkt-Aktivierung macht frei"
>


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