Windows Genuine Advantage: Good News and Bad
Is Windows Genuine Advantage, Microsoft's anti-piracy initiative/utility that denies you some Windows updates and enhancements if you're using a pirated copy of Windows, getting less annoying...or more ominious? It depends on which news you care to pay attention to today.
On the plus side, Microsoft has responded to gripes about the way WGA's Notifications function (which is nagware that squawks if your copy of Windows isn't genuine) makes daily connections to Microsoft servers and its vague explanations of what it's doing with a new version that phones home less frequently, with an updated end user license agreement. If you don't have WGA Notifications already and need it--which you will, if you want to pick and choose updates rather than having Windows install 'em all via Auto Updates--you'll get this new version. If you have the old one, you can get the update or delete WGA Notifications (but if you choose the latter route you will, essentially, cripple your copy of Windows).
