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Massive Microsoft WGA meltdown fingers legit Vista and XP owners as pirates
Posted by: Philipp Esselbach on: 08/26/2007 12:15 AM [ Print | 0 comment(s) ] · 2058 views
Computerworld posted a news story that the Microsoft WGA servers have currently some problems
>> Massive Microsoft WGA meltdown fingers legit Vista and XP owners as pirates
| An unknown problem in a controversial Microsoft Corp. anti-counterfeit process has been fingering genuine versions of Windows Vista and Windows XP as fakes since Friday night, disabling features on potentially millions of machines.
Beginning Friday around 8 p.m. Eastern, users started posting messages on Microsoft's support forums, including Vista Validation Issues, saying that their PCs had been tagged as running non-genuine Windows. Overnight, the number of users adding their accounts to the tale spiked significantly, and the frustration index jumped dramatically. |
>> Massive Microsoft WGA meltdown fingers legit Vista and XP owners as pirates
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