RE: [Off Topic] Windows Genuine Advantage

[Brian.Henderson@xxxxxxxx]

This is the best explanation of WGA that I've seen:
http://windowssecrets.com/comp/060615/ (it's a couple of items down in
the article).

-BH

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Subject: Re: [Off Topic] Windows Genuine Advantage



>There's been a flood or WEB articles on MS' Windows Genuine Advantage
(XP)
>patches.

After a brief perusal (stressing "brief") it looks to me like this
software
checks fortnightly to see that you don't have a pirated version of
Windows.
And that using it is a precondition of getting updates to the OS. What's

threatening about that? Seems perfectly reasonable. Is the problem that
it
may not be limited to doing that?


Harry Binswanger
hb@xxxxxxxx