Windows Genuine Advantage - connecting to Internet?

[squire]

antioch wrote:
Hi Phil
There are plenty of threads re WGA etc - search in newusers and
basics - the subject has been argued for over a months.
Also tell MS direct of your dissatisfaction/complaints/problems here.

http://forums.microsoft.com/Genuine/ShowForum.aspx?ForumID=444&SiteID=25

Give them hell.
Rgds
Antioch
If you give them hell, this will happen:

Your user acount [sic] has been banned. Visit here for more info.

And why do you think MS didn't set it up as a real newsgroup? That
way Google won't archive post sent through non-MS servers, and MS has
total censorship control over the WGA forum.

You're right, of course. We're already looking into Linux.

Its hardly surprising that a near monopoly like Microsoft will use their
market share to bludgeon users into compliance with their wishes. And
considering that the vast majority of home users neither know or
understand all the implications Microsoft can safely assume that only a
minority are complaining.

One way that may give them cause to re-think is the prospect of their
actions stimulating enough people to complain to their regulatory
authorities about abuse of monopoly. Although it took 5 years of slowly
grinding wheels the EU eventually fined Microsoft some $600 million.

My thoughts are to raise this issue with such authorities, but rather
than look to a financial penalty or try to impose restrictions on
Microsoft, to instead try a different route - namely to encourage (and
regulate if necessary) computer suppliers installing OEM operating
systems by a monopoly supplier (e.g. Microsoft) to additionally install
at least one alternative (e.g. Linux).

 

[antioch]

I still haven't found your post.

Which post - in newsgroups or feedback?

This is the feedback one - my second never appeared - mind you, I didn't
think it would.

http://forums.microsoft.com/Genuine...&SiteID=25&searchscope=forumscope&ForumID=444

It's just the idea.
My other issue with WGA is that it penalizes many individuals who, based
on some of the posts I've read, innocent of any wrongdoing, without doing
much to get to the root of the problem.

True - but the 100% really genuine 'innocent users' I bet are very very
small.

If only the mirror (and my aching joints) were as kind as you, Antioch.

At my age any female below 60 is young and attractive - and I still have an
almost A1 vision - no glasses needed etc - the issue of joints I would
rather not go into.
Suffice it to say that this is the only area in which I suffer from
'stiffness' ;-)