A German copy-protection company has published details of Microsoft's technology for preventing casual copying of Windows XP but concluded the technology allows for reasonable upgrades and doesn't ...

Microsoft has officially retired the traditional phone-based activation system for Windows and Office that served as a reliable fallback for users for over two decades. Indeed, the "slui 4" command ...

Microsoft Corp. will change how users activate Windows XP when Service Pack 3 launches in the first half of 2008, a company white paper said. New installations of Windows XP SP3 will give users the ...

Microsoft may have discovered the ultimate turnoff. The company's new product-activation technology, which locks Office XP or Windows XP to a particular PC hardware configuration, can deactivate ...

Err.. I rebooted my system the other day and it said I needed to activate windows, so I said yes and then it just logs off, and if I say no it does the same. I haven't read much about the activation ...

I need to block the access to the Windows Activation site, so I need the URL windows uses in the automatic activation process. We are allowing web access on demo systems we sell in the stores, and if ...