> <sigh>

>  [....]

> > interest and can see my 6 month old £3600 worth of PC running for
> > the remainder of its days without any further updates of my _paid in
> > full_ MS products because MS put up an update which was clearly not
> > ready for the public.

> Same here (11 months).

> > I wonder how many people out there have problems with this WGA
> > update and wouldn't even know where to start as to fixing it, or
> > even realise there was a problem. Must be thousands, my parents
> > would be the classic example.

> Very frustrating, indeed.

> As long as MS is focussing to Digital Rights Management more that to
> customer service, and as long as MS is paranoidly going to criminalize
> their dedicated customers until there's proof to the contrary, we
> perhaps cannot see a light at the end of the tunnel (unless it's the
> train coming from the other direction).
> MS must withdraw this strange "tool" which is nothing but a chain on
> the honest user's feet. Write a new "tool" and try again, MS, but don't
> leave us alone with this problem!
> What will the next tool bring? Total lock of the machine right after
> booting?

> Thanks again, Robert. We only can hope that more and more users world
> wide are experiencing this freezing effect on thier clean (not "tuned")
> machines.
> Mad at Microsoft,
> Joachim