MICROSOFT: STOP HARRASSING LEGITIMATE CUSTOMERS WITH WGA.
I have to agree. I have a stock HP computer over a year old and all of a sudden I get this WGA ***. I used to be a big supporter of Mircosoft. Now-a-days I hate their guts.
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WGA is intrusive and if you don't think so that's fine. My problem is: each morning when I boot my Dell w/XP Pro, it wants to update WGA and requires the license agreement. Can't the "geniuses" at...
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Excellent work Microsoft... so if I have bought illegal software, it will notify me - Yeah, I'm sure that those who use illegal software will want to run that sotware. And for those of us who...
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Posted By: Phil Liu MSFT on 11-26-2006 4:05 AM UTCSubject: Re: MICROSOFT: STOP HARRASSING LEGITIMATE CUSTOMERS WITH WGA.Message: cdisxm wrote:I can tell you right now a Forum is not going to do it....
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Just my 2 cents, but in keeping with the thread. Why should I have to continually load Windows validation software? When I load anything from MS I'm checked - okay fine, I want something I'll wait...
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I am a legitimate customer of Microsoft Windows XP and want to be a legitimate owner of Vista as well. Microsoft does not let me until the end of January 2007. So it is really their doing that I run an...
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Those "WGA harressments" will cease when you unistall your "unproper" version of Vista.
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I am running an "unproper" version of Vista because I came to like the beta's very much. I do run a legitimate version of XP and did not intend to switch to Vista before buying. But... Vista works...
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Bobk_uk,Geez, I hope you don't get a flat tire, by the same logic you'll be trading in your car on a different make the next day.
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Couldn't agree more cdisxm. I'm getting thoroughly irked by all this 'genuine advantage' irritant. Every download, every upgrade ad nausium. I have seen quite a bit of comment in the press about this...
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Derald wrote:..5. Lastly, to prevent two people from constantly swapping registrations to share the software: a. Any time both machines are detected on the internet at one time, both copies deactivate...
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Yes please Microsoft; what a brilliant suggestion from DeraldRecently I had to reinstall a program purchased through to Digital River, the third party softwre delivery service. All my registration...
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Another observation,Even though I register my products with Microsoft, I can find no place to go, no user account which displays my purchases and registration information. I think Microsoft owes it to...
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I have to agree in part to this position. I am a power user, and a computer science teacher and have several computers at home. I have about 5 legal copies of XP and three licenses for Office, plus...
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The power of the buyer is what gives me "freedom of expression". I buy a faulty product and the manufacturer is going to hear about it. If they give me a privately owned public forum, I will use...
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Hello Phil,I am one of those experienced users who have been with Microsoft since DOS 1.0 and I always bought originals for the same reasons I buy them today. I have previously stated those reasons in...
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cdisxm wrote:I can tell you right now a Forum is not going to do it. Windows Genuine Advantage has a fully free support dedicated line (in all languages that WGA Validation is required in) available....
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Ok, now we're getting somewhere, at least on my issue. carlos, sent me this link that sounds exactly what I'm experiencing. I haven't tried it but i think it's gonna work.Take a look at the bottom post...
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Dan,Under the rules of eduequette on private forums, you are correct. I belong to plenty of forums and I know what you are saying. To show you that I am not a novice and a little of my Windows...
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Cdisxm,The moderator should move this thread to "Feedback and Comments."And you have no "freedom of expression" on any privately run forum or bulletin board, any more than you have the "freedom of...
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Fascinating and eye opening links. stevenestradaHopefullly my posts will not become so egregious that the moderator finds it necessary to muzzle my freedom of expression.All my posts on this site are...
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Thankyou ntman for your words of support.I am not sure MS or this forum gets it though. Ashton-Tate should be the bell-ringer for them. They need to see that WGA may be their nemesis.Thanks CDISXM
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I am sorry Sir, I cannot agree with you that most people can fix the problem in 5 minutes. If they have a credit card; if they are prepared to pay for something they already have a license to; if they...
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You have not definitively stated whether or not you personally are having any issues with WGA. I offered some troubleshooting advice, in reply to your other posts, that should have resolved any WGA...
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I concur with everything that CDISXM has said.And for someone who says that you don't listen to "rants" (as you call them) on this forum, let me just say that, that sounds like someone who has the...
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Please forum respondents (either MVP, Microsoft or otherwise) Stop trying to defend a deeply flawed approach to solving a problem of piracy. It simply has far too many variables and exceptions to the...
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