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"Vic Smith" wrote in message
... On Thu, 29 Nov 2007 16:29:59 GMT, "JoeSpareBedroom" wrote: "Vic Smith" wrote in message Do you feel that WGA will report a "false positive" when attempting to validate your OS, deactivate or cripple you OS, thus requiring you to call MS to resolve it? Since there are reports of this, then it is possible, and not always for reasons that are any of MS' business. Hardware changes, for instance. Therefore, WGA is broken. Yes, I've heard of that. Not sure this is isolated to MB/CPU changes, but it has raised complaints from some. Can you address this bit you wrote? If you allow windows update to freely do its thing, you WILL have issues eventually. It's not a matter of "if". It's "when". Do you really believe this, or was it hyperbole? --Vic I've seen it. Not on all computers, but on some. How about you? Even before WGA, the auto update process was seriously flawed. Do you remember the update that completely changed the way OE allowed access to attachments. Of course, this was not made clear to users until they hit a brick wall when trying to access attachments. When this happened at my home office, I was enjoying myself in Puerto Rico, out of cell phone range. Our local computer consultant was home sick with the flu. Our "rainmaker", a guy whose enormous sales depend on attachments, was dead in the water for a day. The MS newsgroups are periodically loaded with identical questions from users whose machines have been somehow sabotaged by a "helpful" update. Even the MS MVPs who answer users' question often recommend turning off auto updates, opting instead for users to just be notified of an available update, and waiting to see the effects they have on hapless people who didn't follow their advice. |
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