Microsoft stopped Office Genuine Advantage plans to relax the piracy restrictions

Office Genuine Advantage (Office 2010  Genuine Advantage OGA) and the Windows Genuine Advantage (WGA) program, Microsoft reduce piracy as an integral part of the Office Genuine Advantage software is mainly used to confirm whether the copy of Office installed on your computer is genuine, If it is not genuine, the software will alert the user on a regular basis.


Last weekend, Microsoft has updated the Knowledge Base article KB949810 for Office Genuine Advantage validation program, and announced that it will stop the program.OGA genuine validation Office users can get the Microsoft Office software updates and other services, stop the Office Genuine Advantage program means that all future versions of Office can download the update provided by Microsoft, whether it is genuine or pirated.

Prior to this, if the user wants to download the Office plug-ins or templates, you must first verified to confirm their installed copy of Office is genuine. Today, the verification step no longer exists.
Microsoft Support Knowledge Base, an article number 917 999 at December 17, 2010 updated, contains the following: "Note: Office Genuine Advantage (OGA) has been terminated. To learn more information about the benefits of genuine Office , please visit the following page: Benefits, of genuine Office. "


Currently, if Microsoft's search engine will be (Bing) search for "validate Office (verification office)", will see a lot of dead links. The search results page is called "Why do we need to verify the office?" The page, but if you click on the link, the user will be directed to the home page of the Microsoft Windows.


In addition, Microsoft Genuine Software page a week ago with the current page relative, you can see has been greatly changed. The previous page contains about 20 links to a separate page; the current page only, including Windows 7 Ultimate and Office 2010 Professional version of the image links, and two "to understand the detailed information about genuine Windows / Office" link.


At present, click on the "Verifying the office 2007 download button in the Microsoft Genuine Software Initiative page will jump to the Windows home page. There is also news that the ActiveX Control Office Notifier is responsible for the IE browser, and Firefox plug-in does not require authentication.


Windows authentication is not affected. Microsoft Security Essentials, Microsoft's free anti-virus software need to verify before download.