Windows Genuine Disadvantage as Microsoft validation servers go down
By Davey Winder in Editorial
Posted in Microsoft on
Well, what a fun weekend that was. For 20 hours or so stretching across Friday and Saturday, many XP and Vista users became pirates, at least as far as Microsoft was concerned.
The validation servers appear to have suffered a major outage, taking along all proof that you had actually bought and installed a legit copy of the OS. When consumers tried to perform a system update or indeed any online activity that requires the WGA server to kick in, they were informed that their copy was not genuine.
A little embarrassing perhaps but nothing more, right? Wrong.
People with Vista, for example, found that functionality was stripped back with the Aero graphical interface mysteriously vanishing.
Still, Microsoft were doing all they could to put things right in the shortest possible time, and making sure their customers were aware of the concern, right? Wrong again.
Or at least that is what it must have felt like to the people whose tech support emails and forum postings were met with an official response of
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