So, Windows Genuine Advantage stops working. You know that little program that pings Microsoft every so often to see if your using Vista or XP legally. So what do you do if it go’s off-line? Don’t have it ping back to home right. Ok but most people don’t know how to stop that. Now lets say your installing XP or Vista and you have to ping home to get it to work fully, now what? You don’t get a fully working copy that’s what. When is going to be fixed? Microsoft support is saying not till Tuesday, August 28 - 3 days from now. And if you so get marked as non-genuine after it pings back don’t reboot. Then you have to call and go over all the crap just to prove you have a copy of Windows that you paid for. So how do you get away from all of this?

Ubuntu.