Microsoft Gives Up On Genuine Advantage

MICROSOFT'S attempts to stop people who have pirated copies of its software from getting upgrades has run aground.
A few weeks ago, they announced that a program called "Windows Genuine Advantage" (WIG) would scan users' PCs to see if they had a genuine licence key before letting them have any updates.
Of course within a few hours of WIG going into action hackers had torn it apart using a fairly simple hack. This was transmitted across the Interweb and made the whole thing useless.
A Microsoft spinster told the Sydney Morning Herald this morning that they had sent its designers back to the drawing board on WIG.
However, he added that WIG was not designed to catch counterfeiters or prevent hacks anyway.