Microsoft has revealed that it plans to change its antipiracy measures in Windows XP to respond to the beta testers' concerns of that XP's product activation system wasn't tolerant enough of typical ...

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 ...

Windows Product Activation, aka. WPA, will be integrated into all versions of Windows XP (the next version of Windows 2000), save DataCenter and volume-based licensed materials (e.g., for licensing ...

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 ...

Known as Kardphisher and "in the wild" since April, 2007, last week the malware author of this trojan horse mimicking the Windows XP activation interface while collecting the credit card details the ...

Multiple Activation Keys (MAK) is a type of Volume Licensing from Microsoft for Windows. It allows you to activate multiple computers with the same key, but there is a limit on the count. However, one ...