2 posts and columns on Windows Genuine Advantage

Windows Genuinely Annoying

in News on October 22, 2008 at 12:56 pm PT

Microsoft’s renewed antipiracy push isn’t currying much favor among PC users running pirated software. In China, a nation where 82 percent of all software is unlicensed, many are lambasting the company over its Windows Genuine Advantage program, which blackens the desktop backgrounds of PCs running unlicensed copies of Windows and pesters their owners with constant warning messages.

Microsoft Privacy Chief Announces Windows Cognitive Impairment

in News on August 29, 2008 at 6:05 pm PT

Microsoft seems to be suffering from a bit of institutional memory loss. How else to explain the company’s recent pot-to-kettle slagging of Google’s approach to privacy? “Google’s a great company, got some great products, but you know, in some respects, I think Google is where Microsoft was seven or ten years ago,” Peter Cullen, Microsoft’s chief privacy strategist told ZDNet.