{"id":1645,"date":"2008-04-09T08:13:08","date_gmt":"2008-04-09T08:13:08","guid":{"rendered":"\/blogs\/news\/archive\/2008\/04\/09\/microsoft-to-add-the-genuine-advantage-nag-to-office.aspx"},"modified":"2008-04-09T08:13:08","modified_gmt":"2008-04-09T08:13:08","slug":"microsoft-to-add-the-genuine-advantage-nag-to-office-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/plexuk.co.uk\/?p=1645","title":{"rendered":"Microsoft to add the Genuine Advantage \u2018nag\u2019 to Office"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Microsoft is set to begin a pilot of a new Genuine Advantage anti-piracy mechanism for Office that will add a \u201cnag-like\u201d feature, akin to what is now part of Windows Vista, to Office. <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/genuine\/downloads\/faq.aspx\">Office already currently includes an Office Genuine Advantage (OGA) validation mechanism<\/a> (for Office XP and Office 2007), but Microsoft doesn\u2019t do a whole lot to \u201cpunish\u201d those it deems to be running non-Genuine versions of Office. However, as part of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/presspass\/features\/2008\/apr08\/04-08gsi.mspx\">a new OGA notifications pilot program \u2014 which Microsoft is launching in Chile, Italy, Spain and Turkey<\/a>, according to an April 8 announcement buried in a Q&#038;A on Microsoft\u2019s Web site \u2014 Microsoft is set to turn up the unpleasantness a notch. <\/p>\n<p>I asked Microsoft to explain what will happen in the new pilot. According to Cori Hartje, Director Genuine Software Initiative: <\/p>\n<p>Full Article &#8211; <a title=\"http:\/\/blogs.zdnet.com\/microsoft\/?p=1322\" href=\"http:\/\/blogs.zdnet.com\/microsoft\/?p=1322\">http:\/\/blogs.zdnet.com\/microsoft\/?p=1322<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Microsoft is set to begin a pilot of a new Genuine Advantage anti-piracy mechanism for Office that will add a \u201cnag-like\u201d feature, akin to what is now part of Windows Vista, to Office. Office already currently includes an Office Genuine Advantage (OGA) validation mechanism (for Office XP and Office 2007), but Microsoft doesn\u2019t do a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[338],"class_list":["post-1645","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/plexuk.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1645","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/plexuk.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/plexuk.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/plexuk.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/plexuk.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1645"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/plexuk.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1645\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/plexuk.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1645"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/plexuk.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1645"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/plexuk.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1645"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}