Why is Microsoft sending an pre-release version of KB 905474

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"David Sherman" <> wrote in message
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> License below
> 1. OVERVIEW.
> · When you install the software on your premises, it will check
> to make sure you have a genuine and validly licensed copy of Microsoft
> Windows XP ("Windows XP") installed. If you have a genuine copy of
> Windows XP, you receive special benefits, which are listed on the
> following link: http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?linkid=39157.

Hey Microsoft, I have a genuine copy. I have a reciept. Where do I send it?
<eg>

I am really upset over this abuse of Microsofts power. I dont' like
anything on my computer that can't be removed. And this update is buggy.

Sarah

if you look at the KB article entiled "Windows Genuine Advantage
Noticifcation", I wonder why I "register" my software from Microsoft
at all.


On Wed, 3 May 2006 10:03:58 -0400, "Sarah" <s.oriley@@nowhere.invalid>
wrote:

>"David Sherman" <> wrote in message
>news.. .
>> License below
>> 1. OVERVIEW.
>> · When you install the software on your premises, it will check
>> to make sure you have a genuine and validly licensed copy of Microsoft
>> Windows XP ("Windows XP") installed. If you have a genuine copy of
>> Windows XP, you receive special benefits, which are listed on the
>> following link: http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?linkid=39157.
>
>Hey Microsoft, I have a genuine copy. I have a reciept. Where do I send it?
><eg>
>
>I am really upset over this abuse of Microsofts power. I dont' like
>anything on my computer that can't be removed. And this update is buggy.
>
>Sarah
>

On Wed, 3 May 2006 10:03:58 -0400, "Sarah" <s.oriley@@nowhere.invalid>
wrote:

>"David Sherman" <> wrote in message
>news.. .
>> License below
>> 1. OVERVIEW.
>> · When you install the software on your premises, it will check
>> to make sure you have a genuine and validly licensed copy of Microsoft
>> Windows XP ("Windows XP") installed. If you have a genuine copy of
>> Windows XP, you receive special benefits, which are listed on the
>> following link: http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?linkid=39157.
>
>Hey Microsoft, I have a genuine copy. I have a reciept. Where do I send it?
><eg>
>
>I am really upset over this abuse of Microsofts power. I dont' like
>anything on my computer that can't be removed. And this update is buggy.
>
>Sarah
>
Sarah,

You can get rid of it - see here

http://www.theinquirer.net/?article=31281

Don't use Automatic Updates, update manually and be selective about
what you install. Not all "critical" updates are necessary or even
desirable, as you just noticed.

Putting this Notification tool out which is both unecessary and a Beta
as a Critical Update is IMO despicable

Personally from now on I have decided that MSFT is in no longer
remotely trustworthy and I will not use the official windows updates
site again, I will use alternative methods of updating where I think
it is necessary.

WGA is also dumped off all my machines as I will not be requiring it.

Jonah

I was just thinking how wonderful life was, when David Sherman
<> opened his gob and said:

> I wonder why I "register" my software from Microsoft
>at all.

You *actually* register MSoft software? I have never registered
anything. I buy it and get support online.

--
Cheers,

Guy

** Stress - the condition brought about by having to
** resist the temptation to beat the living daylights
** out of someone who richly deserves it.

"Dr Teeth" <> wrote in message
news:...
>I was just thinking how wonderful life was, when David Sherman
> <> opened his gob and said:
>
>> I wonder why I "register" my software from Microsoft
>>at all.
>
> You *actually* register MSoft software? I have never registered
> anything. I buy it and get support online.
>


You have to register it if you are running XP. It is called "activation".
It quits working if you do not activate it after a certain period of time.
--
Sarah

"jonah" <> wrote in message
news:...
> On Wed, 3 May 2006 10:03:58 -0400, "Sarah" <s.oriley@@nowhere.invalid>
> wrote:
>
>>
> Sarah,
>
> You can get rid of it - see here
>
> http://www.theinquirer.net/?article=31281
>
> Don't use Automatic Updates, update manually and be selective about
> what you install. Not all "critical" updates are necessary or even
> desirable, as you just noticed.
>
> Putting this Notification tool out which is both unecessary and a Beta
> as a Critical Update is IMO despicable
>
> Personally from now on I have decided that MSFT is in no longer
> remotely trustworthy and I will not use the official windows updates
> site again, I will use alternative methods of updating where I think
> it is necessary.
>


I turned off Auto Update but turned it back on to only notify me of updates.
I still have the Validation Tool on my PC, installed on April 18. But I no
longer have the second Genuine whatever garbage and if I can help it I won't
put it on again. I had a good system to restore when the second, buggy one
kb905474 came in.

The Microsoft MVPs are claiming that the genuine garbage update is only a
recommended update. But several have said it came in as critical update.
Who is making these decisions over at Microsoft? They ticking off their
loyal users when the pirates don't care and just get around it.

--
Sarah

"jonah" <> wrote in message
news:...
> On Wed, 3 May 2006 10:03:58 -0400, "Sarah" <s.oriley@@nowhere.invalid>
> wrote:
>
>
> http://www.theinquirer.net/?article=31281
>
> Don't use Automatic Updates, update manually and be selective about
> what you install. Not all "critical" updates are necessary or even
> desirable, as you just noticed.
>

Thankfully I only have the WGA validation tool installed. It was a simple
matter to delete all refrences to WGAtray.exe in the registry and
C:\windows\system32. Of course it still appears in Add/remove programs. I
wonder if there are other files that are specific to WGA that can be
deleted?

My computer is actually running smoother now.

--
Sarah

Activation and registration are NOT the same thing, activation is required,
registration is not.

"Sarah" <s.oriley@@nowhere.invalid> wrote in message
news:...

>
> You have to register it if you are running XP. It is called "activation".
> It quits working if you do not activate it after a certain period of time.
> --
> Sarah
>

To all threads in this subject:
Thank you for your input. I have been suspect my entire computer career of
any statement that implies BETA software but calls it anything BUT BETA. I
had been a loyal Microsoft user but will now begin investigation dfor other
options in my next system purchase. The language in this agreement is so
extremely ambiguous that anyone unfamiliar with the inception and birth of a
new software release would think they were getting the next release of MSFT's
WINDOWS XP.

The software could come in at a RANK untested format with monstrous BUGS
capable of killing our sophisticated and well-tuned systems. I won't become
the next tester for the next version of MSFT WIN.

My system is now set to notify me only of future updates and I will be
reviewing them with deep scrutiny.

Again thank you for voicing your opinions. They make a lot of sense to me.
And offer options workable so as to keep my system updated when necessary and
avoid the BETA issues. After all $5.00 isn't enough to pay gas to the
computer fixit shop.




"Sarah" wrote:

> "Dr Teeth" <> wrote in message
> news:...
> >I was just thinking how wonderful life was, when David Sherman
> > <> opened his gob and said:
> >
> >> I wonder why I "register" my software from Microsoft
> >>at all.
> >
> > You *actually* register MSoft software? I have never registered
> > anything. I buy it and get support online.
> >
>
>
> You have to register it if you are running XP. It is called "activation".
> It quits working if you do not activate it after a certain period of time.
> --
> Sarah
>
>
>