From: "Robert G Lewis" 


"Adam" <""4thwormcastfromthemolehill\"{at}the
field.near the bridge"> wrote in message
news:44a4520d$1{at}w3.nls.net...
> Adam > wrote:
>> Rich Gauszka wrote:
>>> The Microsoft people that run that forum also love to use their editing
>>> power to alter the meaning of topic headings.  I've had the word
>>> 'trojan'
>>> magically disappear from some of my posts. They also appear to be in
>>> denial.
>>> Dang those evil complainers on the forum who skew their happiness.
>>>
>>>
http://forums.microsoft.com/Genuine/ShowPost.aspx?PostID=510552&SiteID=25
>>> Where are these numbers and estimations based off of? The forum is very
>>> skewed result of only users having Validation issues.
>>>
>> Good Lord who is "Dan at IT associates"?
>> Is contracted to spin on MS's behalf? Kinda "Astro-dan"?
>>
>> Adam
> Oh & BTW he's obviously full of shit coz looky here...
>
> He says (in the above thread):
>
> "Now approach this with an open mind....."
>
> mmmmmkkkay...such as one which swallows the party line & tires to munch
> it's way up to the fishing rod? I think that's a "gullible
mind" & not
> an "open" one.
>
> & then:
>
> "MS begins a program that deploys checking software onto each
> installation of Windows.  The software is designed to check whether the
> installed copy of XP is genuine.  If it's not, that installation of XP
> is denied manually applied updates at Windows Update, and some
> nice-to-have downloads at microsoft.com.  The installation of XP still
> gets security related critical updates pushed to it if Automatic Updates
> is set.  Nothing about the actual function of the computer or the
> Operating System is affected.
>
> MS's reasoning is, Let's reward people for using a genuine copy of our
> product.  The flipside of that is, let's withhold nice-to-have stuff if
> the copy is not genuine."
>
> odd to compare that with:
>
> http://blogs.zdnet.com/Bott/?p=84
>
> "He told me that "in the fall, having the latest WGA will become
> mandatory and if its not installed, Windows will give a 30 day warning
> and when the 30 days is up and WGA isn't installed, Windows will stop
> working, so you might as well install WGA now." "
>
> Hummm....
>
> Adam

Not to defend "Dan' but the latter has been talked about  and denied.
'Dan' is definitely full of shit though. I can barely read his posts.

However I think they have had a decent number of Genuine Windows that fail
the test. Once I've bought and paid for the computer and its legal MS has
not 9**&^*&% business harassing me to get Genuine because someone
else leaked an OEM key etc. I'd also say that MS has definitely affected
the function of PC's through a buggy WGA notification.

They already have a way to validate through their activex controls, why not
use that every time one goes to windows update ? less intrusive and should
allow them to accomplish what they SAY they want to accomplish, though not
what they have in mind for the future.

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