Roy Schestowitz <newsgroups@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in
news:7751306.Eyd9L0m8Gd@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx:
> __/ [ alt ] on Tuesday 25 July 2006 17:48 \__
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>> Roy Schestowitz <newsgroups@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in
>> news:1413059.LSzShV8rKy@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx:
>>
>>> WGA and Activation Failures Don't Faze Redmond
>>>
>>> ,----[ Quote ]
>>>| A case in point is that of a reader who has been wrestling with
>>>| Microsoft and Dell over multiple computers that have come down with
>>>| WGA/activation sickness. "I'm with a small firm that purchased 15
>>>| Dell Optiplex 160Ls on a single order a couple of years ago," the
>>>| reader wrote. "They came preinstalled with Windows XP on them. Now,
>>>| all of a sudden, Microsoft is saying that their licenses are invalid.
>>>| And - to make things more exciting - they've dimmed the Automatic
>>>| Updates settings so we can't change them to Manual. One by one, all
>>>| of the machines are becoming unusable."
>>> `----
>>>
>>> http://www.gripe2ed.com/scoop/story/2006/7/24/8477/1618
>>> 5
>>
>>
>> http://windowsupdate.62nds.com (will not work with Internet Exploder)
>
> Intersting site. Never seen it before...
>
> ,----[ Quote ]
>| This free website allows users of Mozilla Firefox 0.9.3, Netscape
>| 4.0, Mozilla Firebird 0.7, Opera 5, or K-Meleon 0.9, to keep their
>| copy of Windows up-to-date. Newer releases of these browsers are
>| also suitable.
> `----
I use it on my windows installs. With Microsoft hiding spyware and other
crap as "critical updates", it's become a case of "The Boy Who Cried
'Wolf'". I can't trust them with my fully licensed, legitimate installation
(and no, I'm not putting my key online for inspection).
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