Christopher Fisk wrote:
The bicycle was the alternative to Windows, not WGA. WGA was the mother
coming out and putting her kid into timeout and docking his allowance
for not going in every 5 minutes and signing for the ball.
I is dumb. Tell me where the every 5 minute thing comes in? Because WGA
is a one shot thing and then it's done.
You REALLY need to get better in your reading comprehension.
"This doesn't stop the pirates, but it does cause annoyance to the
legitimate users."
Where do you get that I'm saying pirates are legitimate users from that
statement? Really, please explain it to me as I really want to know
what kind of screwed up logic you interpret what you read with.
Please tell me how a few mouse clicks is an annoyance to a user. The
only people who will be annoyed are those who can't get updated because
they are running a pirated version of Windows, likely unwittingly.
In all honesty, the WGA doesn't effect me. My work computer runs linux,
with a VMWare Virtual machine with an Action pack license for XP. My
home laptop runs Windows XP Pro, which came with the laptop. My WGA
check has been done. Then again, I don't make my money doing updates
for computers, so I've only seen WGA twice, and havn't been blocked from
updates because of it.
It doesn't affect me either. I also have a legitimate licence, and all
of the PC's that I deal with in my office are also legitimate.
I still think it's a bad solution for the problem. Tighten up
activation, remove the no-activation needed aspect of Windows XP
corporate (which is the main reason I think WGA is required).
I'll agree with you that this should be rolled into Activation. As for
the no-activation aspect of Corporate, the machines should auto-activate
themselves without user intervention, or funnel into some sort of
central authentication system.
