Verily I say unto thee, that Roy Schestowitz spake thusly:
> Windows Genuine Annoyance
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> | My windows Genuine Advantage experience, which doesn't provide
> | any discernible advantage to anyone but Microsoft, hit a new
> | low today.
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> http://www.businessweek.com/the_thread/techbeat/archives/2007/04/windows_genuine.html?campaign_id=rss_blog_techbeat
> http://tinyurl.com/3dy86d
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| A bar across the top of the page congratulated me on successful
| validation, but the bulk of the Window was given to an ad for a $159
| upgrade to Vista Home Premium. It's bad enough that Microsoft is
| using what is supposed to be a security update process to try to
| extract more of its customers money. But this particular pitch was
| completely pointless since the system was running Windows Business,
| from which an "upgrade" to the Home version makes no sense.
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It's all about the money, isn't it? Money money money money.
User experience? Privacy? Security? Pah! Who needs *that* nonsense, eh?
I just had a post on my site today, from another poor hapless user with
WGA problems, or Windows Geniune Disadvantage issues, as I call them. I
gave him the best advice ... install Linux.
I also carry a feed from the official WGA forums. They're busy ... very
busy.
Trusted Computing is great, isn't it? Until you don't trust it any more,
once you realise that *it* does not trust you, and never has.
--
K.
http://slated.org
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| I found [Vista] to be a dangerously unstable operating system,
| which has caused me to lose data ... unfortunately this product
| is unfit for any user. - [H]ardOCP, <http://tinyurl.com/3bpfs2>
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Fedora Core release 5 (Bordeaux) on sky, running kernel 2.6.20-1.2312.fc5
06:49:01 up 11 days, 4:21, 4 users, load average: 0.20, 0.16, 0.20
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