By Philip Churchill on March 25th, 2008
Windows Update for WHS – March 2008
A new update is available for Windows Home Server via Windows Update. It will download automatically within the next 24 hours and get applied if you have Windows Updates turned on. The update is explained in the KB article entitled: “You may randomly receive a false expiration notice that prompts you to activate Windows Home Server“.
This update resolves an issue for Windows Home Server users who receive a false expiration notice prompting users to activate Windows Home Server.
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So basically despite having paid for your WHS at the store with receipt in hand, then having to activate online, and validating each time by using Windows Update, we are still being told, were all them pirates!
Do we really need yet another patch that offers nothing we paid for? Does anyone think customers want to pay for what Microsoft calls the Windows Genuine Advantage, unless everyone doesn’t mind having to be treated like criminals!
If this sort of crap wasn’t install to being with, there be no need to patch it. It serves no real value to customers at all.
WGA doesn’t work, it requires patches, is a complete unwanted feature and worse, it affords this additional cost upon the consumers.
Just suggesting that WGA keeps cost down is totally ridiculous! It actually cost more to include WGA for a FACT! As for pirates, that’s all hypothetical, and if Microsoft had been willing to be open, as in open source code, like Linux is, then there is no need what’s so ever for anyone to be labeled as a pirate.
In a case filed on June 29, 2006 in the United States District Court of Seattle, plaintiffs Engineered Process Controls and Univex, along with individual end users David DiDomizio, Edward Misfud and Martin Sifuentes, have charged that Microsoft’s technology amounts to a form of spyware.
Nobody wants WGA dude, just like DRM. It’s not needed and you don’t hear Linux users complaining about it. It’s only Windows users that are forced to buy it.
WGA doesn’t even slow down your so called “pirates” anyhow.
Take China for example. Millions of Windows copies. And these types are well educated U.S. trained Ph.D types. Just meaning how easy it is, and if you asked me Chinese are smarter anyhow for not affording high cost buggy software. For them, it’s just a learning curve, until they got their own improved version that Americans will be buying back soon, like all the rest of made in China products the good old USA isn’t producing anymore!
I don’t see the point of having to anilnate your customers into pirates. Linux has no pirates, their open source code is FREE and it’s developing, advancing and without 6 billion dollars funding! You really gotta love open source code folks trying to help others improve.
Guess, what? Some folks aren’t buying it! And Linux doesn’t make it’s customers criminals called pirates just to earn an income for it.
How much Open Source Intellectual Property is Microsoft Infringing upon?
Being how Microsoft’s software is ALL proprietary source code. That means their hiding something that they wouldn’t want the public to know. Could it be that their borrowing open source code (copying it) as 12 billion dollar plus lawsuits having won in many courts already have proven!
I’ll provide a long list if you would like… of actual real cases having found Microsoft guilty and fined. Let the record speak for itself!
Just start reading the many cases here:
http://www.theinquirer.net/en/inquirer/news/2005/07/14/microsofts-lawsuit-payouts-amount-to-around–9-billion
Microsoft Litigation Cases
http://www.groklaw.net/staticpages/index.php?page=2005010107100653
Why shouldn’t the truth be known, unless you got something to hide?
Why shouldn’t Microsoft stop selling WHS on multiple hard drive configurations with a proven design flaw that leads to data corruption?
Another class-action lawsuit is coming!
Correction, that’s 12 billion dollar plus lawsuits having found Microsoft guilty of illegal activities.