WGA

Windows Genuine Advantage has been in the (tech) news a lot lately, for being less than advantageous. There have been rumors that Microsoft can shutdown your computer and is spying on you with the WGA patches, which probably is mostly not true (though WGA does call home from time to time). That said, it has come to my attention that there are some advantages to running WGA...

Microsoft has a whole bunch of software for free here, if you verify that you have a legal copy of windows (with the WGA patches). Check it out, maybe there is something that you will find useful (they won't let me, apparently Linux isn't genuine ;-) )

While we are on the topic of free Microsoft software, MSN has recently put in a test "sandbox" of prerelease web stuff for you to play with, though there is very little that Google and Yahoo don't already have.

Repeat after me... Control, Alt, Delete!   (enjoy your Microsoft Software)