[Gllug] A long shot... Windows support

[Bernard Peek]

On 29 December 2010 15:56, David Damerell
<damerell at chiark.greenend.org.uk>wrote:

> On Tuesday, 28 Dec 2010, Christopher Hunter wrote:

 >On Tue, 2010-12-28 at 13:24 +0000, David Damerell wrote:

>>Just don't forget to block WGA.
> >If you do that, you can't get updates,
>
> Now, this may have changed in Windowses later than XP (but why, if you
> keep an install around to play videogames, would you use one), but
> that is absolutely not the case in XP. You can't use the Web-based
> service but the normal automatic updates work just fine.
>
>


All of this is subject to change without notice. I'm told that Microsoft is
quietly retiring WGA.

-- 
Bernard Peek
bap at shrdlu.com
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