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With SP1, Microsoft plans to ditch the Vista kill switch
Friday, December 21st, 2007
The case for Windows Vista Service Pack 1 just got a lot stronger. When SP1 ships sometime in early 2008, it will strip away one of Vista’s most annoying features and remove one of the most persistent objections to Vista’s adoption. Microsoft plans to remove the infamous “kill switch” from Windows Vista when SP1 is installed, restoring the Windows Genuine Advantage (WGA) program to its original role as a series of persistent but nonlethal notifications.
Vista activationIn a confidential briefing ahead of today’s formal announcement, WGA senior product manager Alex Kochis laid out the changes for a handful of reporters and analysts. One of the bullet points on Kochis’s PowerPoint deck was especially blunt: “Based on customer feedback, we will not reduce user functionality on systems determined to be non-genuine” Those italics are in the original, suggesting that the WGA team has finally realized that they need to react forcefully to a year of embarrassing WGA glitches, server outages, and nonstop customer complaints. » With SP1, Microsoft plans to ditch the Vista “kill switch” | Ed Bott’s Microsoft Report | ZDNet.com
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