Windows: Broken down WGA, of the users taxed with pirates 2007-08-27
The incident from now on is closed with a return to the normal but Friday, during nearly 8 p.m., the service Windows Genuine Advantage making it possible to check the validity of a version of Windows installed on a machine, was very facetious causing an error at the time of an attempt at authentification.
Consequence, of the users owners of a perfectly licit copy of Windows XP or Vista could not authenticate it or else, their system (Vista) entered in operating mode restricted with like only use Internet Explorer and the possibilities of activation.
Fast answer brought by Microsoft
The problem quickly went up with the ears Phil Liu, the director of project WGA, via the dedicated forum of Microsoft of which it is the regulator. Vis-a-vis the grogne several users of which some did not hesitate to launch out in procedures of formatting and reinstalment, Liu initially announced a response to this dysfunction for Tuesday at the latest but finally, it faster than will have been envisaged and all returned in the order for WGA as of Saturday.
In spite of its reactivity, Liu was not very talkative as for the exact origin of the incident, evoking oneproblem waiter. No one does not know so much users were confronted with this problem but the latter are invited to pass by again the test WGA which this blow, will be crowned success.
It is not the first time that the DRM of Microsoft knows this type of concern and at the end of 2006, several holders of licit copies of Windows XP (programme of licences in volume) had already tried out similar misha
