WG disadvantage at Robert Pogson

This takes the cake. WGA servers are down so millions of XP and Vista machines cannot be certified as “genuine” and operate at reduced capability. Is M$ a reliable partner or what!?

see BoinBoing

see this for M$’s response, “I guarantee that we’re working on this issue right now. For folks wondering, MACHINES ARE NOT SHUTTING DOWN with reduced functionality.”

One wonders what the purpose of WGA is after all, if not to verify the software/licence. The term, “Single point of failure”, needs to be modified for the WGA fiasco: “Single point og failure with multiple modes of failure.” I am so glad I make little or no use of that other OS. Thank Goodness for GNU/Linux.

UPDATE! By coincidence, we have a version of this in Shamattawa. Folks with Vista, who have no Internet access are unable to phone home. Some folks do not even have a ‘phone here. I am one of them. I have a machine sitting at the back of the lab showing a screen announcing that 30 days have expired and it needs to phone home or have a code entered. What a colossal waste of energy having the world phone M$ to beg to use their computers. Just use GNU/Linux! Problem solved!

My Mission

My observations and opinions about IT are based on 40 years of use in science and technology and lately, in education. I like IT that is fast, cost-effective and reliable. I do not care whether my solution is the same as yours. I like to think for myself.

My first use of GNU/Linux in 2001 was so remarkably better than what I had been using, I feel it is important work to share GNU/Linux with the world. I have been blessed by working in schools where students and school systems have benefited by good, modular software easily installed in most systems.

I have shown GNU/Linux to thousands of students and hundreds of teachers over the years and will continue in some way doing that until I die in spite of the opposition.