Tag: OGA

Microsoft has silently decommissioned one of its primary weapons against Office suite piracy, the Office Genuine Advantage scheme. A wolf in sheep's clothing, OGA was essentially a road block through which you had to pass to download templates and the like. Proving that your Office installation was genuine allowed you through, and while it's obvious why it was there, it created yet another hurdle ...

This week we're getting a small preview of what Windows Vista's anti-piracy features will be like in the form of Windows Genuine Advantage Notifications, which Microsoft will begin testing this week. The software, which according to ZDNet will be downloaded via Windows Update for a random sample of users, will show users alerts "at startup, login and during their use of the operating ...