WGA blocks some updates on legit Windows PCs

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http://windowssecrets.com/2009/04/09/02-WGA-blocks-some-updates-on-legit-Windows-PCs/?n=known1

Readers refute Microsoft's assertion that Windows Genuine Advantage isn't required to receive all patches for the operating system.

Even worse, WGA blocks some security patches from being installed on PCs running legal copies of Windows that the Microsoft validator falsely identifies as pirated.
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Microsoft doesn't provide all its patches to unlicensed copies of Windows, leaving the vulnerable machines free to attack us — a self-defeating policy recently described by security expert Bruce Schneier.