Microsoft Windows Genuine Advantage Scales Back; Rumors of Disabling Pirated Copies
By Angsuman Chakraborty, Gaea News NetworkWednesday, June 28, 2006
Microsoft has responded to user concerns about phone home feature in Windows Genuine Advantage (WGA) program. However rumours are now circulating about an even more ominous intrusion into their privacy.
As promised, Microsoft has now scaled back the phone home feature, so that it only contacts home base every couple of weeks, with the promise that eventually the phone home feature will be phased out altogether. However, there is now a rumor doing the rounds that Microsoft may use Windows Genuine Advantage to disable pirated versions of Windows altogether. via
Some experts predicted that it is possible Windows Genuine Advantage may occassionally even disable computers running genuine copies of Windows by mistake. After all it is Microsoft product.
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