WGA Servers Down, People Unable To Validate Windows

Ahh, is there any good with DRM at all? It sure doesn’t seem so, and now a lot of Windows users are experiencing the hardships first-hand. It appears that the WGA servers are down, which are required to validate your fresh installation of Windows. Without access, the computer will consider you a thief until you manage to validate. So, with the server down, it might lock a few people out of their Windows, if they hit the cut-off date of 30-days. The servers are due back up on Tuesday, according to a quote at Boing Boing.

The result? Every single Windows XP and Vista installation — except possibly those with volume license keys — is being marked as counterfeit when it tries to check in. Installations which are flagged as counterfeit switch to a “reduced functionality mode” which results in features like Aero and DirectX being disabled.

Source: Boing Boing