News - Microsoft retires Office Genuine Advantage

**HEXUS** · 20-12-2010, 11:30 AM

Anti-piracy measures quietly taken offline as all references are removed from support pages.

**miniyazz** · 20-12-2010, 11:55 AM

Good, WGA always annoyed the **** out of me despite having genuine software. It was just a pain.

**aidanjt** · 20-12-2010, 12:35 PM

Originally Posted by miniyazz

Good, WGA always annoyed the **** out of me despite having genuine software. It was just a pain.

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A completely useless system which only serves to punish genuine customers. It has been since XP.

**Agent** · 20-12-2010, 01:05 PM

The main issue I had with it was if their servers had issues - you were a criminal. It defaulted to being counterfeit

**j.col** · 20-12-2010, 09:23 PM

WGA was a nasty little bug

**joel_spencer** · 21-12-2010, 02:07 AM

The link to check the validity of windows has also changed and I can't seem to find a new one so not sure what's going on.

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