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Genuine Windows Guru that Tackled Cracked Windows 7 Left Microsoft

The top Windows Genuine guru at Microsoft announced that he was leaving the company at the end of the past year. December 31st was Alex Kochis’ last day with the software giant. Previously occupying the position of director of Genuine Windows at Microsoft, Kochis indicated that he was moving onward to greener p...

4 January 2010
07:45 GMT

Microsoft: Disable or Remove the Pilot of WGA Notifications

Microsoft is providing end users with the instructions necessary to disable or remove altogether the WGA Notifications anti-piracy mechanism from Windows XP. However, according to the Redmond company, only the pilot version of the Windows Genuine Advantage Notifications can be either rendered useless or uninstalled c...

1 September 2008
07:46 GMT

Pirated XP SP3 Made to Behave as Non-Genuine Vista SP1

Microsoft has confirmed that the behavior of Windows XP Service Pack 3 has been aligned with that of Windows Vista Service Pack 1. Updated versions of Windows Genuine Advantage Notifications have started popping up on the Microsoft Download Center as early as August 25, but it wasn't until a day later that Dire...

27 August 2008
00:32 GMT

Even with Vista SP1, Hackers Still Crack Windows Genuine Advantage

The fact that Microsoft has relaxed its antipiracy mechanism built into Windows Vista concomitantly with the release of Service Pack 1 failed to stop hackers from providing a crack for the latest version of Windows Genuine Advantage Validation. Various reports point out that Genuine Advantage Validation and Notificat...

1 April 2008
15:02 GMT

Windows Genuine Advantage (WGA) Crack

The Windows Genuine Advantage crack is done and over with. Simply water under the bridge. 12,000 Windows Vista and Windows XP impacted customers and 20 hours of erroneous invalidations the past weekend's WGA cracks is now complete with a Microsoft apology. The Redmond company revealed at the end of some three-fo...

31 August 2007
04:58 GMT

Windows Genuine Advantage Has a Validation Failure Rate of Over 22%

In excess of 22% of all the operating systems processed via the Windows genuine Advantage program resulted in validation failures in 2006, Microsoft revealed. Windows Genuine Advantage is an integer part of Microsoft's anti-piracy efforts aimed at reducing the use of illegal Windows XP and Windows Vista operatin...

24 July 2007
10:21 GMT

Only 244 Genuine Copies of Windows Vista Sold in China

Microsoft has applauded the fact that Windows Vista has sold in excess of 20 million licenses world wide in the operating system's first month on the market. However, out of those 20 million, only 244 genuine licenses of Vista were sold in China. Can you do the math?Well, according to a report from Gearfuse cit...

18 April 2007
03:01 GMT


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