Microsoft Ends This Decades-Old Offline Activation Method For Windows

Microsoft has officially retired the traditional phone-based activation system for Windows (and MS Office) that served as a ...
ZDNet

Win XP buyers face activation dance

Buyers of new PCs may have to grapple with Microsoft Product Activation, a controversial new Windows feature. Users who buy PCs with Microsoft Windows XP could find their setup disabled if they change ...
CRN

System Builders: Microsoft Makes Windows XP Downgrades Tough

At the Redmond, Wash., software giant's system builder summit last week in Phoenix, several channel executives criticized Microsoft's activation requirements, which force partners and customers to ...
Computerworld

Microsoft to ease XP activation with SP3

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 ...
Android Authority

This open-source tool can activate practically every Windows and Office release

Popular Windows activator tool MAS (Microsoft Activation Scripts) has been updated to v3.0 with TSforge, the developer group’s most powerful activation exploit yet. With TSforge, MAS can activate ...