Microsoft's plan to halt some Net activation for Windows kicked in Monday, with the software maker assuring customers that the antipiracy measure will not prove a problem for legitimate users. As ...

The first site purportedly offers a free Windows 8 'activator', which is actually fake, while another one is calls itself 'Windows 8 Activator Loader Extreme Edition 2013'," said Paul Oliveria, ...

Microsoft today said it will soon will feed Windows 7 users an update that detects illegal copies installed using more than 70 different activation cracks.

Microsoft is investigating issues with Windows activation where users who upgraded to Windows 10/11 for free from Windows 7/8 are having their copies deactivated when they change hardware ...

Controversy over the antipiracy "activation" procedures in Microsoft Windows XP and Office XP centers on keying the software to an individual computer and its specific hardware configuration. For ...