Filed under: OS Updates, Windows, Office, Microsoft, Commercial
Windows Genuine Advantage becomes nagware, Office gets it too
by Jordan Running Apr 25th 2006
This week we're getting a small preview of
what Windows Vista's anti-piracy features will be like in the form of Windows Genuine Advantage Notifications,
which Microsoft will begin testing this week. The software, which according to ZDNet will be downloaded via Windows
Update for a random sample of users, will show users alerts "at startup, login and during their use of the
operating system" if it thinks their copy of Windows is pirated. The alerts will say, "This copy of Windows
is not genuine; you may be a victim of software counterfeiting." In addition, this week Microsoft will also begin
testing Office Genuine Advantage, which will do for Office what WGA has done for Windows. Which, if memory serves, is
absolutely nothing.
So, just how good at time waster games are you? Think you've got the stuff? Well, The World's Hardest Game 2.0 doesn't think you do.
Yes, amazingly, it's possible to have a sequel to a game called "The World's Hardest Game". It doesn't seem logically possible, since if the first one was actually the world's hardest, how could another one come along and share the moniker? It made me doubt the name in the first place. That is, until I tried the game.
The mechanics of the game are very simple. You are a small red square, ...
