Windows’s Genuine Advantage(WGA) is Microsoft’s tool to catch pirates trying to get updates. This tool is probably hated by most because it rejects 1 out of 5 people, most of which do not even pirate software. Microsoft is getting a plethora of complaints because of this tool and it’s habit of falsely identifying thousands of people as pirates who aren’t, but Microsoft seems have eased up a little with changing the characteristics that characterize you as a criminal. This will hopefully help those people that were being accused of pirates falsely. The labels will now be genuine, not genuine or “maybe”. This tool, while helping users, also helps Microsoft in it’s fight against piracy by letting them know what some users are doing and let them decide later on what is considered piracy or fair play. However, this is also being scrutinized for making some users miss important updates and WGA also sends back personal information and is sure to bring lawsuits to Microsoft. WGA was never really popular but, at least this tool will help some of the users.

-Ali Shah