http://www.atmaxplorer.com/2007/10/ie7-removes-wga-check/ Xploring Games, Computing, Photography Fri, 10 Feb 2012 11:49:54 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 http://www.atmaxplorer.com/2007/10/ie7-removes-wga-check/comment-page-1/#comment-252 Tech News: Atma Xplorer - PinoyBlogoSphere.com - Pinoy Bloggers Society (PBS) Mon, 08 Oct 2007 11:27:49 +0000 http://www.atmaxplorer.com/ie7-removes-wga-check/#comment-252 [...] IE7 removes WGA check The first time IE7, I was a bit confused at Microsoft?s intent. At first, they wanted to compete with Firefox by providing a ?free,? safe and optimal browser to compete with Firefox, Opera and everyone else. When it came out, I was surprised to see an additional WGA check which was embbedded into every installation of the new browser, which was quite separate from the checks of my windows installation ?this goes the same for WMP11. Now, from the official IE blog is an announcement that the WGA checks will be gone with the latest IE7 update, at least for Windows XP users. [...] [...] IE7 removes WGA check The first time IE7, I was a bit confused at Microsoft?s intent. At first, they wanted to compete with Firefox by providing a ?free,? safe and optimal browser to compete with Firefox, Opera and everyone else. When it came out, I was surprised to see an additional WGA check which was embbedded into every installation of the new browser, which was quite separate from the checks of my windows installation ?this goes the same for WMP11. Now, from the official IE blog is an announcement that the WGA checks will be gone with the latest IE7 update, at least for Windows XP users. [...]

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