Late last week, with absolutely no public announcement, Microsoft quietly retired one cog in its antipiracy machine. An anonymous tipster informed me on Friday that Microsoft had shut down its Office ...

Microsoft has shut down its Office Genuine Advantage anti-piracy program. Microsoft wrote "the Office Genuine Advantage (OGA) program has been retired", on a Microsoft help and support webpage on 17 ...

Many users have run afoul of OGA (Office Genuine Advantage), a scheme requiring users to validate their copies of Office prior to downloading and using specific ...

Late last week, Microsoft put an end to its Office Genuine Advantage (OGA) program. The Office Notifier, the OGA ActiveX control for Internet Explorer, and the OGA plug-in for Firefox have also been ...