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 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 ...

People who buy PCs with Microsoft's Windows XP could find their machine disabled if they change or upgrade as few as four components. Details of Microsoft's Product Activation technology, which is ...

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 ...

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 ...

Recently my "old" xp pro main box needed a new motherboard.. and now Office XP Pro 2002 won't "activate." I have the original disks... and even when I put in the main disk.. and I have the Product Key ...