Windows Genuine Advantage suffers worldwide outage, problems galore

@ 2007/08/25
We contacted our sources at Microsoft, who told us off the record that the company is aware of a major WGA server outage affecting users across the globe. The Windows Genuine Advantage support forum has exploded with complaints, as a result, and Phil Liu, WGA project manager, says that he won't sleep until the problem is fixed. Windows Vista and XP are affected, 32- and 64-bit versions.

Microsoft is telling users who are affected that they should "try again" later, with some support techs telling readers that Microsoft is aiming to have a fix in place by Tuesday, August 28. That would mean the outage will last more than three days, given that it started last night (and may have started earlier; we're hearing reports of some users running into this earlier in the week, on limited bases).

Comment from FireTech @ 2007/08/26
I wonder if you go there now and you don't have a legit copy whether it will validate it as legit just to get around this crisis...
Comment from jmke @ 2007/08/26
Quote:

Folks:



Please go to www.microsoft.com/genuine and click VALIDATE WINDOWS to resolve this issue immediately.



Additionally, I know you all are looking for an explanation/root-cause. I will get that ASAP. We are aware it is a server-side issue - the cause is unknown at this current time.



Still not sleeping, and still reading digg.com,



-phil
lol
Comment from FireTech @ 2007/08/26
See third post for further instructions:
http://forums.microsoft.com/Genuine/...4756&SiteID=25