Touting Successes, Microsoft Admits to WGA Mistakes Too

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This week, Microsoft finally admitted what many of us have suspected for quite some time: Its Windows Genuine Advantage (WGA) anti-piracy tool is faulty and has mistakenly identified hundreds of thousands of valid Windows installs as pirated. Meanwhile, over 22 percent of all Windows installs that have gone through the WGA validation process have been correctly identified as pirated, making the program a huge success, at least from Microsoft's perspective. Read on at WinItPro