Update to WGA Notifications for Windows XP Professional (FYI)

[Guest PA Bear [MS MVP]]

Update to WGA Notifications for Windows XP Professional

http://blogs.msdn.com/wga/archive/2008/08/26/update-to-wga-notifications-for-windows-xp-professional.aspx

 

Description of the Windows Genuine Advantage Notifications application

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/905474

 

NB: Installing WGA Notifications tool remains *optional*.

 

Let the FUDfight begin... <eg>

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[Guest Alias]

Re: Update to WGA Notifications for Windows XP Professional (FYI)

 

PA Bear [MS MVP] wrote:

> Update to WGA Notifications for Windows XP Professional

> http://blogs.msdn.com/wga/archive/2008/08/26/update-to-wga-notifications-for-windows-xp-professional.aspx

>

>

> Description of the Windows Genuine Advantage Notifications application

> http://support.microsoft.com/kb/905474

>

> NB: Installing WGA Notifications tool remains *optional*.

>

> Let the FUDfight begin... <eg>

 

I have yet to understand how WGA benefits someone who knows they have a

genuine copy of XP. For that matter, I have yet to understand how WGA

benefits someone who knows they have a pirated version. From what I can

see, the only entity that benefits is Microsoft, although that's

debatable when you consider the PR lost by accusing paying customers of

being pirates with a new version to do it every year or so.

 

Alias

[Guest HeyBub]

Re: Update to WGA Notifications for Windows XP Professional (FYI)

 

Alias wrote:

> PA Bear [MS MVP] wrote:

>> Update to WGA Notifications for Windows XP Professional

>> http://blogs.msdn.com/wga/archive/2008/08/26/update-to-wga-notifications-for-windows-xp-professional.aspx

>>

>>

>> Description of the Windows Genuine Advantage Notifications

>> application http://support.microsoft.com/kb/905474

>>

>> NB: Installing WGA Notifications tool remains *optional*.

>>

>> Let the FUDfight begin... <eg>

>

> I have yet to understand how WGA benefits someone who knows they have

> a genuine copy of XP.

 

It confirms he has a genuine copy, that he weren't ripped off by a vendor,

or had his copy purloined by the repair shop.

> For that matter, I have yet to understand how

> WGA benefits someone who knows they have a pirated version.

 

It doesn't. It sanctions them and shames them into doing the righteous

thing.

> From what

> I can see, the only entity that benefits is Microsoft, although that's

> debatable when you consider the PR lost by accusing paying customers

> of being pirates with a new version to do it every year or so.

 

Well, it certainly does benefit Microsoft, else they wouldn't be doing it.

Duh.

 

WGA also encourages folk to get legal, punishes the dishonest computer

seller or shop that the user might otherwise rely on, and serves as a

deterrent to rascals who may be contemplating future rip-offs.

 

Some are offended, true. But no more so than by the gramps character that

checks your receipt as you leave Walmart, or the cop who wants to see your

driver's license before warning you of the dead dog wrapped around your

front bumper.