Failure Validated Legit Vista Vista News Discuss Failure Validated Legit Vista in the Windows Vista forums; Coincidence? WGA Failures Followed Windows Update 381 Today, September 24, 2007, 11 hours ago Is it coincidence that Microsoft's Windows Genuine Advantage failure started around the same time that ...

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Coincidence? WGA Failures Followed Windows Update 381
Today, September 24, 2007, 11 hours ago
Is it coincidence that Microsoft's Windows Genuine Advantage failure started around the same time that Windows Update self-updated?

Based on eWEEK Labs and Windows Secrets testing and posts on various forums, Windows Update self-updated on August 23 and 24, from version 7.0.6000.374 to 7.0.6000.381. On the evening of August 24, Windows Vista users started complaining of failed activations/validations. Microsoft would later say that about 12,000 systems failed to activate/validate. What Microsoft didn't say is which ones. (The failure-In my case .381). (I also am a Beta Tester for the new Auto Upgrader.)

Are these two events related, or is it merely coincidental that around the same time Microsoft disseminated a new version of Windows Update, WGA started to invalidate thousands of Windows systems?

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