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WGA (Windows Genuine Advantage) is Broken (7077)
Hi all
I wanted the Office 2007 addon - save documents in pdf and xml formats.
Downloaded from Ms office site.
Was prompted for WGA -- it didn't actually do anything as WGA isn't yet functional for Windows 7 -- I'm running build 7077 X-64. It just tghen passed me straight to the download.
Installed the add on.
Then I got please activate Windows -- you have 27 days (?) left to activate windows.
It activated OK but I'd ALREADY activated windows -- and where did the 27 days come from -- normally it's 30 days.
However under some circumstances I've seen (different) Windows builds - not necessarily W7 only) saying "To continue using Windows it must be activated within 3 days".
To the more mathematically challenged 30 -3 = 27 -- co-incidence perhaps.
After re-activation - no further probs -- but found it strange behaviour -- no extra hardware added etc.
Cheers
jimbo