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Pirates ahoy!

Microsoft has revealed stats from its Windows Genuine Advantage (WGA) programme and they're not pretty. Out of 500 million that have validated their copies of Windows, 100 million failed the check.

Those who have genuinely been duped can shop their dealer in exchange for a valid copy of the OS. But I wonder how many were false positives?

January 24, 2007 |

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