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> <channel><title>gHacks Technology News &#124; Latest Tech News, Software And Tutorials &#187; wga failures</title> <atom:link href="http://www.ghacks.net/tag/wga-failures/feed/" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml" /><link>http://www.ghacks.net</link> <description>A technology news blog covering software, mobile phones, gadgets, security, the Internet and other relevant areas.</description> <lastBuildDate>Fri, 10 Feb 2012 20:51:26 +0000</lastBuildDate> <language>en</language> <sy:updatePeriod>hourly</sy:updatePeriod> <sy:updateFrequency>1</sy:updateFrequency> <generator>http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1</generator> <atom:link rel="hub" href="http://pubsubhubbub.appspot.com"/><atom:link rel="hub" href="http://superfeedr.com/hubbub"/> <item><title>Pirated Keys only cause 80% of all WGA failures</title><link>http://www.ghacks.net/2006/07/04/pirated-keys-only-cause-80-of-all-wga-failures/</link> <comments>http://www.ghacks.net/2006/07/04/pirated-keys-only-cause-80-of-all-wga-failures/#comments</comments> <pubDate>Tue, 04 Jul 2006 05:41:51 +0000</pubDate> <dc:creator>Martin Brinkmann</dc:creator> <category><![CDATA[Operating Systems]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Windows]]></category> <category><![CDATA[microsoft]]></category> <category><![CDATA[wga]]></category> <category><![CDATA[wga failures]]></category> <guid
isPermaLink="false">http://www.ghacks.net/2006/07/04/pirated-keys-only-cause-80-of-all-wga-failures/</guid> <description><![CDATA[You all know windows genuine advantage (wga) which checks if you are running a legit copy of windows xp on every startup and when you try to download certain tools and updates from the microsoft website. Microsoft confirmed that only 80% of all WGA failures are caused by pirated keys which means that about 20% are not caused by pirated keys.]]></description> <content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>You all know windows genuine advantage (wga) which checks if you are running a legit copy of windows xp on every startup and when you try to download certain tools and updates from the microsoft website. Microsoft <a
target="_blank" href="http://www.computerworld.com/action/article.do?command=viewArticleBasic&#038;articleId=9001559">confirmed</a> that only 80% of all WGA failures are caused by pirated keys which means that about 20% are not caused by pirated keys.</p><p>I think this is pretty interesting. Ed Bott from <a
target="_blank" href="http://www.zdnet.com/blog/bott/ms-20-of-wga-failures-not-caused-by-pirated-keys/89">Zdnet</a> tried to get an answer about the other 20% and recieved an evasive one stating that Microsoft would not be able to share specifics and that those mostly resulted from &#8220;activities such as various forms of tampering and unauthorized OEM installations.&#8221; The only conclusion that I can come up with is that there is most likely a large number of false positives and Microsoft does it´s best to keep this number secret.</p><p><span
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