To activate a retail version of Microsoft Windows, a user must enter the product key into Windows and then connect to the Internet or call Microsoft to validate the key. But that’s too cumbersome for ...

Starting with the release of Vista and "Longhorn" Windows server next year, customers will be required to register their volume license keys (VLK) with Microsoft within 30 days of acquisition and ...

Microsoft has changed its tone for Office 2007 product activation for volume license customers. Rather than require product activation for each copy of Office 2007 that is deployed, Microsoft is ...

"Corporate Edition" versions of Windows have been the blessing of both IT workers and casual pirates since the days of Windows 95, when the operating system first started asking for a license key on ...

Since Windows Vista has been released to the public, there has been a lot of confusion and hype surrounding some of the licensing decisions and restrictions with which Microsoft Corp. saddled the ...

Last week, Microsoft announced new anti-piracy plans for Windows Vista, Windows Server "Longhorn," and other upcoming products. The new technologies, which Microsoft collected under an umbrella dubbed ...

Windows Server 2003 has yet to be officially launched, but a registration key to install Microsoft Corp.’s new server operating system has already been posted online. The volume license key allows ...

Many software programs at the time of installation require users to enter a Product key. It contains both letters and numbers, an alphanumeric code combination of varying lengths. The key verifies the ...

Windows product keys are almost (but not quite) a thing of the past. With Windows 10, Microsoft has rewritten the rules for how it performs product activation on retail upgrades of Windows, including ...