
And if you guessed that the bad patch may not even show up on customers' systems, you get the giant whoopee cushion. If you guessed that the aberrant patch is KB 3004394, you get the big prize. If you guessed that all of those problems were caused by a bad Black Tuesday patch, you win the small prize. Looking around the Internet and answering my email, I see at least a hundred posts from people who are being told their copy of Windows 7 is disingenuous when, in fact, they know it's genuine.

I could go on - there are dozens more, in the Activation section alone, all in the same vein - but you get the gist of it.


I'm being told my copy of Windows is not genuine, but it is.Windows Genuine but getting message not genuine.I have a question for you: What do all of these Microsoft Answers forum posts have in common? Have you been following this month's Black Tuesday bounty of problematic patches? Good.
