{"id":317,"date":"2007-08-28T09:54:16","date_gmt":"2007-08-28T08:54:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ianfitter.com\/blog\/2007\/08\/28\/windows-genuine-disadvantage\/"},"modified":"2008-01-31T15:27:20","modified_gmt":"2008-01-31T14:27:20","slug":"windows-genuine-disadvantage","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ianfitter.com\/blog\/2007\/08\/28\/windows-genuine-disadvantage\/","title":{"rendered":"Windows Genuine Disadvantage"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>One of the very reasons I don&#8217;t want Windows Vista is the threat that Microsoft will screw up the WGA validation system, and surprise, surprise, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.theregister.co.uk\/2007\/08\/27\/wga_server_outage_aug_2007\/\">guess what happened this weekend<\/a>?<\/p>\n<p>Interestingly, <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.msdn.com\/wga\/archive\/2007\/08\/27\/update-on-validation-issues.aspx\">Microsoft&#8217;s WGA Blog<\/a> says:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>This validation failure did not result in the 30-day grace period starting and no one went into reduced functionality mode as a result.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>but in the very next sentence then says:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The experience of a system that failed validation in this instance was that some features intended for use only on genuine systems were temporarily unavailable.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Err, sorry Microsoft, but temporary unavailability of features is <strong>very definitely reduced functionality<\/strong>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>One of the very reasons I don&#8217;t want Windows Vista is the threat that Microsoft will screw up the WGA validation system, and surprise, surprise, guess what happened this weekend? Interestingly, Microsoft&#8217;s WGA Blog says: This validation failure did not result in the 30-day grace period starting and no one went into reduced functionality mode [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[30,15,32],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ianfitter.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/317"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ianfitter.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ianfitter.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ianfitter.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ianfitter.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=317"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ianfitter.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/317\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ianfitter.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=317"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ianfitter.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=317"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ianfitter.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=317"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}