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WGA abomination….
I have grown first lukewarm, then indifferent to Microsoft products over the years. Philosophically, supporting a convicted predatory monopoly that doesn’t change its ways is an untenable position to me. It so happens that I have some Windows PCs left at home, if for no other reason than that I had no choice but to buy Windows pre-installed on them. Enter stories like the following:
WGA and Activation Failures Don’t Faze Redmond
I do not trust Microsoft to accurately report the number of users running afoul of validation and activation failures. With regards to WGA, the fundamental flaw from my point of view is that a single legitimate customer locked out is already one too many. Not that Microsoft would see it that way - unless there’s a huge public backlash that threatens their cash cows, it doesn’t appear that the company cares.
For me as a home user, I’m content to migrate what I can off Windows and to make contingency plans for the remaining systems. As a business user, I’d have a cold, hard look at Linux…
Click to read MORE...Posted by markus on Monday, July 24, 2006
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