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Windows Genuine Advantage Problems Getting Worse

Ed Bott's article on ZDNet is just another example of the growing number of WGA horror stories.  The difference is that Ed's article is the result of sifting through 15 days of WGA problems as reported on MS' own official WGA Validation Problems forum.  Ed found that, during that 15-day period, 42% of the people reporting WGA problems were running valid copies of Windows XP

Dave Winer recently became another one of the XP users who had a legal copy of Windows but who was told otherwise by WGA

Microsoft sure does know how to piss off their customers, don't they?

 

Published Tuesday, September 26, 2006 11:45 PM by sjh
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jayson knight said:

Lump me in with that 42%, I'd say about half the time I try to download something from the MS website that requires my copy of XP be authenticated or whatever I have to go through the process more than once (perhaps it's related to Firefox which is even worse IMO). And even worse than that, I recently moved one of my local Virtual Server instances hosting a Win2k3 OS over to VMWare and was told that I needed to reactivate within 3 days. No big deal so I called Microsoft to explain what I was doing. They refused to give me a new authentication code (and this is in my Q to blog about)...I escalated it to management and he mentioned something about the fact that virtualized servers won't get new keys or some crap. F'ing g/d m'fing ridiculous. For all that MS does to make my job easier, the few times they really drop the ball more than diminishes that.
September 26, 2006 11:49 PM

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