Microsoft Genuine Advantage: Bah!
Sheesh. Once again Microsoft is determined to inconvenience legitimate users without giving hackers a pause with their now-mandatory Windows Genuine Advantage program. I was just trying to download the new SyncToy Power Tool for Windows XP and had to go through the rigamarole of validating that I have a legitimate copy of Windows. Isn’t once enough?
So, what Microsoft is saying is that to download anything but non-critical security patches I have to do this validation every single time? The ActiveX control method of validation doesn’t seem to work for me, presumably because I’m running as a non-admin user or because I have IE reasonably locked down. So I have to download and run the 400K tool every time I do a download, then copy and paste the code into the Web page??? Or will this be another example of something that Microsoft tells me I have to loosen my security to enable?
Bah!