Two lawsuits filed in 2006 over the same issues have not amounted to any decisions yet, and since then Microsoft has extended modified versions of WGA to Windows Vista, Windows 7 and Microsoft Office. Online validation is generally required to download updates for the products from Microsoft's servers.
It has also come under fire in the past for having allegedly high levels of false positives, where genuine copies of Windows XP were flagged as counterfeit. If that should happen to you, then maybe this tool will help.













