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August 27, 2007

To WGA Hell (and Back)!

As a veteran Windows developer I'd say I'm more or less confident of my ability to extricate myself from even the most complex failure scenarios. Flaky hard disk? Been there. Corrupted Driver Database? No sweat. In fact, after nearly 20 years of running some variant of the New Technology kernel, you might even call me a bit "smug." I wear my NT scars with a sense of pride that only an early adopter can evoke.

So you can imagine my surprise when a simple headline – "Windows Genuine Advantage Suffers Worldwide Outage" – sent me cowering behind my daughter's giant stuffed unicorn. WGA. My nemesis. The bane of my otherwise placid existence. The one failure scenario that I (nearly) couldn't recover from. Locked out of my system ... my desperate mouse clicks falling on the deaf ears of the WGA web site. The sense of impotence! The horror!

But I digress. Suffice to say, I'm terrified of WGA, and for good reason. A few weeks back I made the mistake of ...

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