gadgets and technology devices: Judge throws out Microsoft WGA spyware case

Judge throws out Microsoft WGA spyware case

Windows Genuine Advantage software might be many things (annoying and by no means error-free, to name but two) but it ain’t spyware — at least according to a judge in the District Court for the Western District of Washington, who dismissed the lawsuit that we first caught wind of back in ‘06. The news comes a month after the plaintiffs failed to have the suit certified as a class action, which is never a good sign — and which bears out Microsoft’s assertion that the case is “fictional” and from an “alternate universe.” Zing! Both parties are being mum on the subject of any settlement that might have been reached, but if it were us we’d have at least held out for one of those world famous Windows 7 Whoppers.