22% Of Windows Installations “Non Genuine”

Everton | Jan 26, 2007 | View Comments


According to information released by Microsoft, 22% of systems validated using Windows Genuine Advantage (WGA) proved non-genuine External Link.

Since WGA launched in July 2005, over 512 million users have attempted to validate their copy of Windows, Microsoft said. Of those, the non-genuine rate was 22.3 percent. 56,000 reports have been made by customers of counterfeit software, which grants that user a free replacement copy of Windows.

I find this number astounding. I knowthat you can’t get better than ‘free’, but the hassles of constantly trying to get around Microsoft’s validation checks must surely get annoying after a while, and make it worth while paying?


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About the Author: Everton is based in London and has worked in the internet and mobile space for over ten years now, and before that worked in corporate strategy and consulting. He has a degree in Economics from Cambridge University.He also writes for Windows 7 News, Windows 8 News and One Tip A Day.

  • #Martin
    Or, they worked out how to patch legitcheckcontrol.dll and wgalogon.dll and re-validated ;-)
  • It is interesting to note that more than 1 million of the failed checks were false positives.
  • Well, I finally got my copy of Vista yesterday. The first copy got stolen when they delivered it to the wrong address and someone forged my signature to accept it!
  • Here in India, almost 99% of installations are non-genuine. I am a MSDN member, so I got my Windows for free!
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