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Microsoft has quietly killed an offline option to activate Windows 10 and 11: phone activation. According to Neowin, the ...

There were a few ways to activate Windows 11/10 officially. However, Microsoft has now apparently killed one such way without ...

Microsoft has seemingly disabled phone call activation for Windows 11, and perhaps older versions as well, making it ...

Failure to activate Windows will result in watermarks and feature restrictions, which could be bad news for customers who don ...

Microsoft has reportedly removed the ability to activate Windows 11 and Windows 10 without an internet connection.

Microsoft has quietly taken another step toward an entirely online ecosystem, effectively ending phone-based activation for ...

This post features solutions to fix the Windows Activation error 0x803F700F. Windows activation is a process by Microsoft that verifies that the Windows copy you’re ...

So, question about KMS activation, as it relates to Windows 7. We already have a KMS server which activates Windows 2008R2 servers. Works great. So, I want to have a few Windows 7 machines I am ...

Windows Activation helps verify that your copy of Windows is genuine and hasn’t been used on more devices than the Microsoft Software License Terms allow. 1] Are you using the right product key? Make ...