Microsoft have lost the plot on piracy - for years they have tried a myriad of different ways to control it and WGA keeps bobbing up time and time again on machines that have ALREADY been validated and proven to be legit. Given the amount of telemetry data they gather from the GUID that phones home (check your logs folks) then why do they keep wanting to revalidate with WGA popup for systems already validated?

They tried DRM through Windows Anytime Upgrade on Vista and then in Feb 08 they had to withdraw that program worldwide and revert to upgrades only being shipped via DVD's!

Microsoft needs to leave the home user alone and let them have free software (that?s the only way they will kill off Open Source/Linux etc) and focus on the business and government account sector from SMEs right up to Fortune 100 companies.

Microsoft can solve piracy within business and government accounts very easily without lockdowns and at the same time offer a benefit to organizations (not home users as they need to leave them untouched so they don?t lose their loyal user base) by offering a solution that is embedded within the OS that helps an organization reduce its cost of auditing and compliance. It can be done, they just don't want to do it!

http://www.pcprofile.com/who_is_responsible_for_software_pir
acy_1.htm and
http://www.pcprofile.com/who_is_responsible_for_software_pir
acy_2.htm

Rob Harmer
PCProfile
www.pcprofile.com
Adelaide
South Australia


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