C-Net/ Vista WGA

[Jeff]

Well;
Not to anyone's suprise, but c/net just had an article about validation
in Vista.
Seems Vista will phone home periodically;to check if you're legit. Uhoh,
see a pattern/problem here? LOL
Not that I find anti-piracy initiatives bad; or that I am in any way
opposed to MSFT's legitimate attempt to stop piracy,
but again; the methodology is what concerns me. WGA in itself;presents no
problems;to me functionally.
It will only check if I initiate it(i.e. downloading a WGA application).
What I do take offense too;is periodically checking to see if I am a
criminal.
Check once;at activation;then LEAVE ME ALONE. If I choose to apply a WGA
program;then o.k.; check again.
As the article was unclear to the extent of "phoning home"; I'm interested
to see the eventual outcome of this.
here's the link to the c/net article :
http://news.com.com/2100-7355_3-6122462.html?part=rss&tag=6122462&subj=news
Any;and all comments;welcome.

Jeff
P.S. Yes; I agreed to the EULA(and did read it-lol;which;btw was not an
option with kb905474 in XP)

 

[peter]

I read an article this morning that basically said MS was going to be
heavily enforcing anti piracy by means of crippling the computer the pirated
OS is on.Things discussed included 1 hour of Internet use daily for 14 days
then no Internet,Crippling of almost all software with the ability to just
start the system after a certain time frame and if still pirated copy system
will shut down.
I am assuming that activation will follow a similar route....1 hr per day
for 14 days...no activation...no Internet
peter

 

[Robert Moir]

Check once;at activation;then LEAVE ME ALONE. If I choose to apply
a WGA program;then o.k.; check again.
As the article was unclear to the extent of "phoning home"; I'm
interested to see the eventual outcome of this.
here's the link to the c/net article :
http://news.com.com/2100-7355_3-6122462.html?part=rss&tag=6122462&subj=news
Any;and all comments;welcome.

There's been miles of comment already all over the place about WGA, there
will be miles more before the race is run to the end, but I'm sticking to
something I said quite a while ago:

If you've got no pressing need to continue to buy Windows, buy a Mac.

Apple 'trust' you to do the right thing with your OS licence. They make
cheap 'family pack' licences available if you have several Macs you want to
upgrade when a new OS comes out. They actually act like they're vaguely
grateful for your custom, instead of making you assume the position and
submit to a full cavity search every time you reboot.

 

[Jeff]

Robert,
LMAO-- Nice; I like your comment,
So true too!!

Jeff