More News From Microsoft on WGA Outage  Microsoft has released
more information on last weekend's outage of the WGA servers.
Human error was the cause according to the latest report. The
explanation is still imprecise and unclear, but it sounds like
some changes were made to the production servers, but not all
that should have been:  So it sounds like the pre-production
code and the strong encryption changes are not the same thing,
but the former required the latter. Something like that.  It
also seems that when they rolled back the change it didn't undo
the validation problem, and they didn't monitor the systems
properly to see what was happening. So far, no good. The systems
were not down, they were responding incorrectly. Users saw a
"This copy of Windows is not genuine' " notification. Systems
were not, however, put into "reduced functionality mode." I'm
confused. There are a lot of states in this system.  I have to
say I'm still not completely satisfied with the explanation,
although I don't think it's