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Microsoft Product Activation For Windows XP: Technical Market Bulletin
White Papers Microsoft has developed product activation as one solution to reduce this form of piracy. Software piracy is a worldwide problem which negatively impacts software developers, resellers, support professionals, and most importantly, consumers.
[September 8, 2005, 0:00]
Microsoft Brings Copy Protection To Consumer Apps
News In fact, Moore sees Plus DME's product activation as a real opportunity for Microsoft to win over those consumers who remain wary of product activation. Microsoft is set to release its first mainstream consumer software application protected by...
[January 2, 2003, 15:19]
Tuesday: Activation Troubles Down Under
Blog Tuesday 10/06/2003Remember when Microsoft introduced product activation with Windows XP? If Microsoft remains hell-bent on keeping product activation, the least it could do would be to have a grace period of a couple of weeks on some form of...
[June 13, 2003, 13:16]
Microsoft's XP: Hardware Changes A Turnoff
News The company's new product-activation technology, which locks Office XP or Windows XP to a particular PC hardware configuration, can deactivate unexpectedly, rendering the software useless. I have been completely against Windows Product Activation...
[June 27, 2001, 12:40]
Patent Defeat For Microsoft And Autodesk
News A federal judge in Texas has delivered a setback to Microsoft and Autodesk in their patent infringement battle with product activation start-up Z4 Technologies. The initial suit was filed nearly two years ago by David Colvin, owner of Michigan...
[August 24, 2006, 9:20]
Software Firms Tweak Activation After Backlash
News Software makers are getting smarter, but no less insistent, about product activation in the face of noisy customer protests, according to software executives gathered here. Product activation, an increasingly common anti-piracy technique that links...
[October 7, 2003, 10:00]
Activate Microsoft Office Programs
White Papers Microsoft Product Activation is a Microsoft anti-piracy technology designed to verify that software products are legitimately licensed. Activation works by verifying that the Product Key, which must be supply to install the product, is not in use...
[February 13, 2007, 23:00]
Microsoft Rules Out Extra Support For Windows XP
News Microsoft says it has no plans to beef up its technical support resources ahead of the retail launch of Windows XP next month, even though the new operating system is the company's first consumer product to include a potentially complicated new...
[September 20, 2001, 16:37]
MS Software-activation Error Hurts XP
News Customers who called Microsoft's toll free product activation number (included with its software) to acquire a code were told by customer service staff that the company was temporarily unable to provide activation codes.
[June 10, 2003, 9:50]
Windows-friendly Xandros 4 Launched
Talkback After installation, you have to request and receive an activation code from Xandros to unlock the full functionality of the product, especially critical security and product updates. Should you need to install the product again, you will need to...
[June 29, 2006, 4:16]
Rupert Goodwins' Diary
Blog This surreal environment proves perfect for two hours of lectures and Q&A on the sticky subject of Microsoft Product Activation. They didn't explain why, if they've spent four years developing product activation, they haven't got around to any way...
[October 8, 2001, 15:03]
Consumer Rights On The Block?
News Yet the creators of the technology say a balance of interests is exactly what the Product Activation is about. In Microsoft's case, the Product Activation technology -- which will also be used to restrict the next-generation Office 10 -- will also...
[January 17, 2001, 12:10]
Microsoft Claims Latest Scalp In War On Counterfeit Software
Talkback There is absolutely nothing on the box exterior regards activation of the product, nothing inside in print other than the Code to enter to activate it. I was informed by the computer activation on the Internet, that I had used the reactivation too...
[December 13, 2005, 18:53]
Microsoft May Disable Upgraded PCs
News If the product ID number is already registered against a different PC, the clearing house will not authorise the activation of the software. The new system, called Windows Product Activation, or WPA, first surfaced earlier this year in build 2410...
[March 2, 2001, 22:00]
DIY ADSL? It's Not As Cheap As You Think
News ISPs have warned, however, that users will have to supply their own ADSL modem as well as coughing up an "activation fee" -- expected to be in the region of £45 to £50 -- to pay for work that needs to be done at the local exchange.
[November 21, 2001, 14:05]
Vista PCs To Lock Out Rogue Software
News Windows XP also included product activation, but people could still use their machine in "safe mode" if the operating system was not activated. The first type of product key to replace the current system is called "multiple activation key," or MAK.
[October 6, 2006, 9:40]
2001: The News Schmooze In Review
News In Asia they were more concerned with how to grapple with the latest padlocks Microsoft put on the OS, but in the end these didn't pose much of a problem -- a 4KB file quickly appeared to remove that pesky Product Activation feature.
[December 31, 2001, 6:31]
New 'Whistler' Build Adds Antipiracy Lock
News The most potentially controversial addition to Whistler 2410, however, is antipiracy code that Microsoft is calling "Microsoft Product Activation for Windows", (WPA) according to testers. The technology is similar to the Office Activation Wizard...
[January 9, 2001, 8:59]
Tech Reasons Not To Upgrade To XP
News Product activation problems Mandatory product activation is another reason for not upgrading to Windows XP. A lot of rumours are circulating about the way product activation works. If the thought of not being able to run a user's OS on another...
[September 10, 2002, 9:01]
Microsoft Extends Deadline For License Change
News Microsoft introduced product activation with Office XP and extended it to Windows XP, in part to help fight software piracy. Product activation would require entering a code during installing and contacting Microsoft later on, slowing the process.
[October 8, 2001, 11:00]
