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Offline Nemesis

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Is Microsoft easing away from WGA?
« on: October 07, 2007, 08:04:07 am »
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IE 7 Update Drops WGA Validation Requirement
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Microsoft says it wants to make the browser available as broadly as possible to protect Windows users. 

Microsoft is making its Internet Explorer 7 browser available to all Windows XP users—even those using pirated software—and installation will no longer require that the operating system first be validated as genuine.

The company said the move is about security and ecosystem safety, because if even one user in a network is not using the security enhancements provided in IE 7, that user places the entire network at risk.


Using that argument shouldn't they make all security updates available without WGA?  Why just IE?  Could it be a means of fighting the erosion of the IE market share?
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Re: Is Microsoft easing away from WGA?
« Reply #1 on: October 08, 2007, 01:35:18 am »
Is Microsoft easing away from WGA?

No, it is just obsolete. ;)  All security updates are available from Microsoft without WGA using MBSA.
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