WGA Turning Off PCs in the Fall?
Found on Slashdot on Wednesday, 28 June 2006
We all know about Microsoft's WGA initiative that started last July. Most of us were troubled to learn that the WGA has been 'phoning home' to Microsoft at every boot. Well, get ready, because eventually Microsoft may be turning off copies of Windows without WGA installed. According to a Microsoft technician, 'in the fall, having the latest WGA will become mandatory and if its not installed, Windows will give a 30 day warning and when the 30 days is up and WGA isn't installed, Windows will stop working, so you might as well install WGA now.'
MS might hurt itself with that move. If you decided to install an illegally optained version of Windows because you didn't want to pay for it, you might consider trying a legal free operating system when it stops working. I'm not saying every user will migrate to Linux; but quite a few might.