Still no word on cause of WGA outage or Microsoft’s future prevention plans
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| Microsoft officials say they are continuing to investigate how the outage
| occurred, as well as why someone on the support team inappropriately told
| users the outage wouldn’t be resolved until August 28. If the team already
| knows what happened, so far, it’s not saying.
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http://blogs.zdnet.com/microsoft/?p=677
WGA Meltdown Casts Doubt on Microsoft Reliability
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| Gartner Inc. analyst Michael Silver also dinged Microsoft on the reliability
| issue. "A system that's not totally reliable really should not be so
| punitive," he said. "This issue is not really how long it take for Microsoft
| to fix the problem, but also how when the user can get back on the network to
| revalidate. What happens when someone's about to get on a plane and won't be
| able to revalidate for three days?"
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http://www.pcworld.com/article/id,136451-c,companynews/article.html
Michael Silver is having lunch with Microsoft. They are very close.
Related:
Dvorak: 'Something To Avoid at All Costs'
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| Many in Health IT are moving to all over-the-web 'asp', software-as-service
| Electronic Medical Records services with total centralized control of data.
| John C. Dvorak sounds off a note of caution for such a trend with the recent
| Windows Genuine Advantage server outage...
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http://www.linuxmednews.com/1188267152
Meet Linux Genuine Advantage
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| “Microsoft’s only recognition of the problem has been in an email to a user
| having trouble, who posted the information here on a Microsoft official
| forum. Microsoft’s suggestion: Try to validate again on Tuesday. Hey, hope
| you don’t need your computer over the next four days …”
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http://www.p2pnet.net/story/13153
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