Windows Genuine Disadvantage

Windows Genuine Disadvantage
Mark Rasch, 2006-07-05

A recent lawsuit filed against Microsoft should have all companies reexamining their privacy policies to determine what information they are actually collecting about customers, and what they can possibly do with it.

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Chris (5 replies)

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Mark D. Rasch

are you SURE it is only a "few details"? 2006-07-06
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Windows genuine disadvantage 2006-07-06
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Why aren't my customers adversely affected? 2006-07-07
Gordon Fecyk (2 replies)

Re: Why aren't my customers adversely affected? 2006-07-07
Kelly Martin (3 replies)

Where's the detailed analysis of WGA's data compared to WPA? 2006-07-08
Gordon Fecyk

Show me the data! 2006-07-08
Gordon Fecyk

Spyware vs. EULA 2006-07-10
Mark D. Rasch (1 replies)

Where's the virus defenition for WGA in Norton Antivirus? Where's the entry for WGA in Symantec's virus library? 2006-07-12
Gordon Fecyk (2 replies)

Re: Where's the virus defenition for WGA in Norton Antivirus? Where's the entry for WGA in Symantec's virus library? 2006-07-14
GrimRebuke (1 replies)

So Symantec's software phones home too? Pot, Kettle, Black, Rasch? 2006-07-17
Gordon Fecyk (1 replies)

Re: So Symantec's software phones home too? Pot, Kettle, Black, Rasch? 2007-04-05
RichieB

Re: Where's the virus defenition for WGA in Norton Antivirus? Where's the entry for WGA in Symantec's virus library? 2006-07-15
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Re: Why aren't my customers adversely affected? 2006-07-10
Anonymous (1 replies)

You've confused WGA with WPA just like Rasch did 2006-07-12
Gordon Fecyk (1 replies)

Re: You've confused WGA with WPA just like Rasch did 2006-07-18
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Windows genuine disadvantage 2006-07-08
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Windows genuine disadvantage - rollback caused warning 2006-07-13
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Windows Genuine Disadvantage 2007-03-24
Anonymous

I understand the impetus behind WGA in that it's designed to thwart piracy. BUT, once it is determined by WGA that the operating system is perfectly legitimate, why isn't that enough for Microsoft?

Tell me why that bloated POS software (WGA) has to connect to the Microsoft servers on every start-up in order to constantly validate the operating system, after it has already passed inspection?

This slows my system down to a crawl as well...making me one very unhappy customer. Grr.

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