Microsoft keeps making WGA worse
Microsoft shows no signs of recognizing the problems that they are causing consumers with Windows Genuine Advantage (WGA). They just keep making the anti-piracy measures more and more burdensome. An article at InfoWeek reports:
Microsoft announced Tuesday that it would use Automatic Updates to roll out changes to the component of its anti-piracy scheme that nags users when their copy of Windows is tagged as counterfeit. An analyst criticizes the changes as more work for customers.
The article continues:
Michael Cherry, an analyst for Directions on Microsoft, criticizes the newest changes. “I’m getting more and more bothered by the burden they’re putting on the customer,” he says. “All the benefit goes to Microsoft. There’s nothing to make it a quid pro quo. If they had tackled everything about licensing, given us a way to inventory licenses, and simplified the text so we knew what the licensing meant and enforced licensing, that would be one thing. But that would have been hard.”
Instead, says Cherry, Microsoft shoves more of its anti-counterfeit measures onto customers’ shoulders, without giving them anything meaningful in return. The move by the company to hand users validation troubleshooting resources and tools is only the latest example.
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