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Vista Still Seems Buffeted By Windows Genuine Advantage (WGA) Falls Positives
Saturday, March 3rd, 2007
Hello, my name is Alex and I’m apparently running a bogus copy of Windows Vista. At least that’s 
what my computer told me earlier today after I booted up. Funny thing is, I got my copy of Vista directly from. . . Microsoft. Apparently, I’m not the only one with this problem. If you troll Microsoft’s Windows Vista Activation Forum, you’ll find numerous posts along the same lines. My troubles began when I booted up my Vista box for the first time in a couple of weeks. (I still use XP on my main machine. I was thinking of moving over to the new system; now, I’m not so sure.)
After booting up, I got a message that my activation period had "expired," and I would have to reactivate. Even though I had previously — and successfully — activated my copy of Windows Vista, this gave me only the slightest pause, since it was a minor glitch not out of the ordinary from what one might expect with a new operating system. Did I want to re-activate over the Internet? Of course! Alas, that was not to be; apparently my copy of Vista wasn’t genuine, at least according to my PC. InformationWeek Weblog: Vista Still Seems Buffeted By Windows Genuine Advantage (WGA) ‘False Positives’
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