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People who attend Apple's WWDC event today will see striking WGA Hollywood writers

John Callaham — Mon, 05 Jun 2023 10:56:02 +0000

Members of the Writers Guild of America will be at Apple's Cupertino, California headquarters today to pass out leaflets urging the company to enter talks to end their current strike. Read more...

Judge dismisses Windows XP WGA lawsuit

Benjamin Rubenstein — Wed, 10 Feb 2010 16:37:07 +0000

According to ComputerWorld, Microsoft has, for all intent and purposes, won the Windows XP WGA, anti-piracy, lawsuit. The lawsuit was brought to court over three years ago because people felt Microsoft was misleading its customers... Read more...

Microsoft changes 'Windows Genuine Advantage' name

Kevin Weiner — Thu, 07 May 2009 18:24:08 +0000

Microsoft will be changing to name of it's activation and validation system from "Windows Genuine Advantage" to "Windows Activation Technologies" according to a report by Mary-Jo Foley. However, the "Genuine" brand isn't completely disappearing.... Read more...

Microsoft gets serious about Windows piracy

Thu, 06 Nov 2008 18:57:52 +0000

Microsoft has been battling piracy since the beginning. But it seems as though they have finally had enough. In one of the more recent Windows Updates, Microsoft deployed what they feel is a step in... Read more...

Microsoft tweaks anti-piracy check for Windows XP

Daniel Fleshbourne — Wed, 27 Aug 2008 09:05:00 +0000

Microsoft has updated software that verifies whether a copy of Windows is genuine in its Windows XP Professional edition, making it similar to the notification in Windows Vista and thus more persistently visible to users.... Read more...

WGA and OGA Servers Down

Sat, 19 Jul 2008 02:58:04 +0000

According to Ars Technica, the servers responsible for activating new installs of Windows and Office are currently down due to an unspecified reason. The issue became apparent after several users attempted to activate Office 2003... Read more...

Microsoft releases activation exploit detection update

Michael Stanclift — Wed, 27 Feb 2008 01:29:16 +0000

Microsoft has released an update for Windows Vista designed to detect activation exploits that bypass product activation and that interfere with usual Windows operation. This update is tagged as KB940510. According to Microsoft "when the... Read more...

WGA, OGA -When do we get UGA?

Steven Parker — Mon, 01 May 2006 13:16:47 +0000

User Genuine Advantage, that's when Microsoft actually lets you use the product you paid for without nag screens and prompts all over the place -ok, it doesn't exist, but I already feel a need for... Read more...