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Top 5 Windows Product Key Activation Challenges IT Pros Encountered and Solved
White Papers Windows Vista® and Windows Server® 2008 include some significant changes relating to product activation over Windows® XP and Windows Server 2003. Microsoft® product support services identified the five most common product activation...
[February 24, 2009, 10:58]
Office XP: product activation review
Reviews Whether you buy full boxed product, or an upgrade for your existing Office suite, you will be required to activate it, either by telephone or online, using the Product Identification (PID) number. If you don't register, then you'll only be allowed...
[May 30, 2001, 0:00]
Customizing Windows Vista Business Edition: Licensing, Reimaging, and Product Activation Considerations
White Papers This white paper discusses the benefits of customizing Windows Vista Business Edition and reviews the activation impacts associated with customization. It also provides the policy implications of customization and details these implications through...
[February 24, 2009, 10:58]
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]
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]
Tuesday: Activation troubles Down Under
Blog Remember 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 emergency activation...
[June 13, 2003, 13:16]
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]
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]
Cisco Unified Provisioning Manager 1.1 Deployment Best Practices
White Papers Cisco Unified Provisioning Manager, a Web-based GUI product used to simplify IP telephony management with respect to activation services and call processing provisioning, is a product from the Cisco Unified Communications Management Suite.
[June 13, 2008, 1:01]
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]
ScanSoft PDF Converter Professional 3 review
Reviews If you can complete the latter step over the Internet, do so, because otherwise you’ll need to enter a very long key generated by the activation Web site -- twice. The software requires 140MB of free hard drive space, and -- activation aside -- the...
[June 7, 2005, 13:55]
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]
Microsoft readies Windows Embedded 'Quebec'
News Quebec will also require product activation, unlike XP Embedded. There will be a default evaluation product key that will allow the Quebec image to run for 30 days without activation. The Quebec release will require basic retail activation or OEM...
[June 9, 2008, 9:16]
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]
