Microsoft WGA servers down; some XP and all Vista installs being marked as counterfeit
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| Aladdin_Sane Aug 25, 2007 6:09 PM |
I posted this elsewhere. I don't think it is good for the Newswire, because the 'issue' seems to be clearing up already. Some clickies: The original forum post and comments at Microsoft (now at 47 replies): [HYPERLINK@forums.microsoft.com] Validation issues - Microsoft is having WGA server problems. The NP Boing Boing article on WGA going Boing Boing: [HYPERLINK@www.boingboing.net] Microsoft WGA servers down; all XP and Vista installs being marked as counterfeit At Digg, including a response from an MS official: [HYPERLINK@digg.com] Microsoft WGA server down! Results in un-genuine vista copies. The 2006 outage: [HYPERLINK@blogs.msdn.com] WGA service outage The unrelated, except in design exposure, Skype outage earlier this week: [HYPERLINK@news.yahoo.com] Users: Outage no reason to abandon Skype Apparently occurred due to reboots resulting from MS's "Patch Tuesday". Two fatal designs flaws in MS software revealed in a week. Think some users will get a clue? Nah. Not judging from the comments in the links posted above. Did I miss any links? My favorite comment so far (at Digg):
This is fun to watch from Linux. Oh, the irony. It looks like it is starting to clear up for some users, fun is almost over. Another irony: Those using pirated Vista, or not applying *any* critical updates to XP are unaffected. So pirates and hobbled systems are OK (so are corp systems like Dell's internal standard image). **edit** Bad clicky. Corrected clicky: [HYPERLINK@forums.microsoft.com] Validation issues - Microsoft is having WGA server problems. |
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| lcafiero Aug 25, 2007 8:18 PM |
I posted this story from Ars Technica on LXer.com but haven't seen it yet. The link to the Ars Technica story is here: [HYPERLINK@arstechnica.com] It's also supposed to be on CNN. I picked it up from Fark.com. |
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| pogson Aug 26, 2007 8:12 AM |
The WGdisadvantage is a GNU/Linux genuine advantage. We GNU/Linux users are free to use our PCs without interference by a corporation with its own agenda, to lock-in the world. It is very interesting how frequently GNU/Linux comes up in the discussions of WGdisadvantage all over the web. I left links to [HYPERLINK@debian.org] , [HYPERLINK@goodbye-microsoft.com] and [HYPERLINK@www.knoppix.org] on one site. | ||
| Aladdin_Sane Aug 26, 2007 10:13 AM |
Ubuntu is not Linux, according to this highly educated poster at forums.microsoft.com:
Not sure whether to laugh or cry. |
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| NoDough Aug 27, 2007 1:55 PM |
Here's irony for ya' I'm on my work laptop right now running Windows XP Pro. When I saw the WGA story, I decided to check my system. Sure enough, there was WGATray.dll and WGALogon.exe. (I think those are the correct file names.) In any case, I have always been very careful not to install or authorize the installation of WGA, including marking the update as excluded and, when I had to download something from the MS web site, using the GenuineCheck.exe application rather than installing WGA to complete the download. A quick web search for RemoveWGA.exe took care of the problem. |
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