Judge Blocks Microsoft WGA Class Action

A federal judge has blocked class action allegations in a lawsuit alleging that Microsoft disguised a download of anti-piracy software as a critical security update.

"A class action would have let virtually anyone who owned a Windows XP PC in mid-2006 to join the case without having to hire an attorney," writes Computerworld's Gregg Keizer.

"The three-and-a-half-year-old lawsuit claims Microsoft duped customers by labeling its Windows Genuine Advantage (WGA) software a critical security update, failed to tell them that WGA collected information from their PCs, then frequently 'phoned home' that data to Microsoft's servers," Keizer writes.

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