To protect its products and software, Microsoft strictly regulates the sale and use of Windows software by embedding a validation code, also called a product key, in every copy of Windows. Should you ...

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 ...

It has never been too hard for someone with the right amount of time, desperation, or flexible scruples to get around Windows XP’s activation scheme. And yet XP activation, the actual encrypted ...

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 ...

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 ...

Windows XP is the operating system that just won't die. After its 2001 release, XP would go on to sell more than 400 million copies. Microsoft tried to end support for the OS several times over the ...