Microsoft cites human error in anti-piracy malfunction


      Last week's malfunction of Microsoft's Windows Genuine Advantage anti-piracy mechanism was caused when new software code was accidentally put on the servers running the system, before those servers had been made ready for the code, according to a post last night by Alex Kochis, WGA senior product manager. Kochis writes:
      
      
      "Nothing more than human error started it all. Pre-production code was sent to production servers. The production servers had not yet been upgraded with a recent change to enable stronger encryption/decryption of product keys during the activation and validation processes. The result of this is that the production servers declined activation and validation requests that should have passed."
      
      
      Kochis explains in the post that the problem made some computers fail the anti-piracy validation and activation processes, causing them to lose advanced Windows features and get a "This copy of Windows is not genuine" message, until the WGA system was fixed and people were able to properly activate and validate their computers.
      But beyond the cause of the problem, the question is how it will affect public opinion of the Windows Genuine Advantage system.Continue At Source


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