Do you have Windows Genuine Advantage (WGA) installed?

[hypn0tik]

Discuss

 

[Leper Messiah]

 

[jlee]

x2

 

[Bateluer]

Yes, I do. Both my machines have legal OSs.

 

[purbeast0]

no i don't, and i still don't understand what the hell the advantage of it is.

 

[NFS4]

Yes, why not? My copy of Windows XP is legal so I have nothing to hide.

 

[JustAnAverageGuy]

Well, considering you need it to get Windows Updates now, yes.

The work around does work though

 

[Linflas]

Originally posted by: NFS4
Yes, why not? My copy of Windows XP is legal so I have nothing to hide.

All of my copies are legal as well but I feel no obligation to demonstrate that to Microsoft.

 

[Sunbird]

Yarrr!!! It shivers me timbers!

 

[NFS4]

Originally posted by: Linflas

Originally posted by: NFS4
Yes, why not? My copy of Windows XP is legal so I have nothing to hide.

All of my copies are legal as well but I feel no obligation to demonstrate that to Microsoft.

????

If your copies are legal, then I don't see what the big deal is with installig WGA to perform updates.

It'd be like buying an expensive item at a store, pulling out your credit card, then getting pissed when the cashier asks to see your driver's license.

 

[ElFenix]

Originally posted by: NFS4
????

If your copies are legal, then I don't see what the big deal is with installig WGA to perform updates.

It'd be like buying an expensive item at a store, pulling out your credit card, then getting pissed when the cashier asks to see your driver's license.

more like how fry's inspects your bags on the way out the door.

 

[NFS4]

Originally posted by: ElFenix

Originally posted by: NFS4
????

If your copies are legal, then I don't see what the big deal is with installig WGA to perform updates.

It'd be like buying an expensive item at a store, pulling out your credit card, then getting pissed when the cashier asks to see your driver's license.

more like how fry's inspects your bags on the way out the door.

Never been to a Fry's

That being said, I installed WGA, it ran its check and that's all. I don't have to worry about it again. I went to check for updates today and it didn't even pop up, it just went right on to the updates.

Too much bitchin' from people IMHO

 

[Linflas]

Originally posted by: NFS4

Originally posted by: ElFenix

Originally posted by: NFS4
????

If your copies are legal, then I don't see what the big deal is with installig WGA to perform updates.

It'd be like buying an expensive item at a store, pulling out your credit card, then getting pissed when the cashier asks to see your driver's license.

more like how fry's inspects your bags on the way out the door.

Never been to a Fry's

That being said, I installed WGA, it ran its check and that's all. I don't have to worry about it again. I went to check for updates today and it didn't even pop up, it just went right on to the updates.

Too much bitchin' from people IMHO

If it made sense I wouldn't mind it but it is beyond freaking annoying when you are supporting a lot of machines to have this extra step in the way of installing patches to fix security holes in their OS. Sure it is only once but it adds up when you are on a tight schedule and updating a lot of workstations. Then there is the fact that the single largest piracy threat to MS comes from pirated copies of their software being mass manufactured and sold in countries that don't respect US copyrights and not the average user trying to patch a system.

 

[gsaldivar]

Originally posted by: NFS4
Never been to a Fry's

My condolences.

 

[ElMonoDelMar]

Yes because I would never p1r4t3 any software...it's illegal.

 

[PokerGuy]

Nope, don't need to install it either, security updates will still work just fine regardless, and that's the only update I download from MS.

 

[jjones]

1) Fvck off

2) Fvck off

 

[imported_Kensai]

Probably not anytime soon.

 

[ssvegeta1010]

Installing now!

 

[thehstrybean]

Originally posted by: jjones
1) Fvck off

2) Fvck off

QFT...

MS checks your CD key anyway when you first get on the net. That's illegal in itself, so I'm not gonna let them check it again, even with my permission...Screw MS...

 

[keldysh]

How many folk actually READ ENTIRE EULA?

License to USE software is that!

If you USE product without reading or agree to EULA YOU are one breaking law!

Now excuse me while I tear off mattress tags.

 

[thehstrybean]

Originally posted by: keldysh
How many folk actually READ ENTIRE EULA?

License to USE software is that!

If you USE product without reading or agree to EULA YOU are one breaking law!

Now excuse me while I tear off mattress tags.

LoLerskates...

 

[neutralizer]

No, running corp edition w/ legit key.

 

[UNCjigga]

See, the problem is, I *have* a legal XP Pro key for my laptop (the one that came with it) but I built an OEM custom CD for my Dell with different install scripts that's based on the pirate XP Pro Corporate. I could just make a new CD with the legal copy, but its too much effort, and I didn't like the whole activation thing anyway.

 

[EyeMWing]

Intriguingly, my legit VLK license (the minimum number of copies to qualify for VLK - 5) DOES NOT authenticate. It would appear, based on the wording of the "ZOMG ILLEGITIMATE COPY" message, that Microsoft completely dropped Windows Update support for volume licenses based on the idea that most sysadmins deploy updates through other means anyway.