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[News] Windows Genuine 'Advantage' Gets More Aggressive, Nags Users, Advertises

Microsoft's New Validation Policy

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| Now Microsoft has taken authentication of the Microsoft Validation
| to a whole new level.  Starting now, they will be checking your
| operating system every month.
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http://www.mypcpros.com/computer-blog/2007/5/1/microsofts-new-validation-policy.html

WGA - The "A" stands for Advertisments

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| This is just lame.  Using WGA as a marketing stream is bad enough, I
| thought this was about making sure that the customer is running a
| genuine copy of Windows, but running untargeted ads is worse still
| because this is just going to confuse and irritate customers.
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http://blogs.zdnet.com/hardware/?p=380

It no longer seems like people own and control their own PCs. It gradually
gets worse.

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