bucy wrote:

The Windows Genuine Advantage plan became a genuine disadvantage over the weekend when the server that verified users went down and began to disable operating systems around the world. At least, it disabled the operating systems of computers that checked into the home base to affirm their legitimacy.

Dvorak on the WGA outage over the weekend and by extension, the big problem with "software as a service."

This is crap. Of course it's wonkey right now, because you don't have billion dollar businesses relying on it. Plus, there's plenty of ways to engineer this stuff so that it's 5 nine's uptime. The phone company has been doing that for decades. Software will become a service and already has in many corporate environs.