jlechem's Journal: WGA makes the rounds, again

Well WGA has been in the news a lot lately. And this time it hit home for me. I have an older copy of windows xp I got from an old employer. Probably not legal, I am not 100% certain. However it always worked and I never got any of the so called WGA notices about being not legal. Well that changed with the latest version of WGA. Suddenly I was gettting the nagware/balloons/notices before login about being not correct. I was annoying as hell to say the least. It only took me a few minutes to figure out how to disable it but now I can't run auto updates and none of them will install without this WGA shit. So I'm stuck with no more updates to my box. And we all know how MS is with their patches. This could leave so many people screwed it's not even funny. I can't believe they're even doing this. It seems like so a bad PR move it's unbelievable. I'm so pissed I'm thinking about installing a more user friendly Linux distro over the weekend. As long as I can play my Diablo II and KOTOR II I will be happy. Looks like i might be learning the intracies of gcc afterall.