Microsoft to roll out new version of WGA

Link: Microsoft to roll out new version of WGA. In the category of "too little, too late", Microsoft is attempting to mollify the thousands of us falsely accused of running a pirated version of XP on one of our computers, by creating a new category of Windows Genuine Advantage (WGA) violation, which will nag the user less often, and will provide trouble shooting tools. Right. If you believe that, I have some South Florida swamp land to sell you. One of the FutureLawyer's old computers, now used as a server, has received false positives from WGA, and I spent an annoying several hours figuring out how to disable it. Microsoft just doesn't get it, it is unlikely that it WILL get it, and I get angry all over again, remembering being called a "pirate" by the brain dead WGA software. Wait a minute! Now I remember! Linux! Ubuntu Linux! Open source! Web 2.0! The rally cry of freedom!

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[Greg]

Agreed . . . Only careful with the Web 2.0 battle cry. You are safe with Linux, but you are ceding a certain degree of control over your actual user-created content to a company when you use their web services. For example, we like to like Google right now, but I am not sure that I would want to store my documents in Google's Write or Spreadsheet. Who knows when Google might decide to change its mantra from "Do no evil" to "Join Microsoft in the nefarious control of the universe through the rampant exploitation of our customers."

I prefer to have exclusive control over my user-created content.