According to Ars Technica, It appears that Microsoft’s Windows Genuine Advantage servers are suffering a worldwide outage:Windows Genuine Advantage suffers worldwide outage, problems galore:Late last night we started receiving reports from readers experiencing problems with Windows Genuine Advantage authentication. Users of both Windows XP and Windows Vista were writing to say that they could not validate their installations using WGA, and one user even said that his installation was invalidated by the service.We contacted our sources at Microsoft, who told us off the record that the company is aware of a major WGA server outage affecting users across the globe…. Windows Vista and XP are affected, 32- and 64-bit versions…….Right now we don’t have official word on a cause, but one source with familiarity with WGA tells us that the issue may be caused by updates to the service that were required after Microsoft expanded the number of activations keys available for Windows XP.
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