From TFA:
" Microsoft designed its Windows Genuine Advantage Program to give people an incentive to move to and stay on legitimate, licensed copies of Windows. Because of WGA, pirated copies of Windows are no longer allowed to be updated, and many Microsoft tools and programs that would normally be freely available are now only available to licensed customers." So, if you chose not to install WGA, you are in danger from older patched bugs. If you choose to install WGA, you are still in danger from new bugs (like the Excel Zero-Day Exploit, last week), AND in danger of having the WGA fail to work properly. So, Microsoft tries to motivate people to install their software by threatening them with the bugs in their previous software? Lady or the Tiger, eh? And, top it off, Microsoft slipstreams it into the "Critical Security Updates" when it is not a critical security update at all? Talk about violating the trust of your users! The gall. -- Ted Roche Ted Roche & Associates, LLC http://www.tedroche.com _______________________________________________ Post Messages to: [email protected] Subscription Maintenance: http://leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profox OT-free version of this list: http://leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profoxtech ** All postings, unless explicitly stated otherwise, are the opinions of the author, and do not constitute legal or medical advice. This statement is added to the messages for those lawyers who are too stupid to see the obvious.
