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Changing The Product Key On Windows XP
News The Product Activation Wizard will load and should tell you that your copy of Windows has already been activated. At this point, Windows will launch the Product Activation Wizard. If you have XP Corporate, no activation is required and your machine...
[May 14, 2003, 11:38]
TechNet Webcast: Troubleshooting Activation And Validation Issues With Windows Vista And Windows Server 2008 (Level 300)
White Papers The attendee of this webcast will learn to resolve some of the common issues with Windows product activation in enterprise environments. This webcast covers the steps to troubleshoot top issues around product activation and validation, and it...
[August 4, 2008, 0:00]
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]
PC Buyers Face Product Deactivation
News Details of the Microsoft Product Activation technology, which is meant to be a copy protection measure, are contained in a document designed to debunk fears surrounding the technology. Businesses, at least, should not have to deal with the process...
[September 24, 2001, 15:46]
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]
Microsoft Brings Copy Protection To Consumer Apps
News But Windows XP's activation process, following optional product registration, led to a misunderstanding over information collection. Some consumers initially balked at Windows XP's product activation feature, since they would not be able to install...
[January 2, 2003, 15:19]
Microsoft Acknowledges Vista OEM Hack
News In response to widespread chatter on blogs and forums, Microsoft has acknowledged the presence of hacks that may allow hackers to bypass the product activation security feature in its Windows Vista operating system.
[April 13, 2007, 9:38]
Activating XP
News Product Activation is currently required for all OEM and retail versions of Windows XP, Office XP, and several other Microsoft products. Use of the Windows XP Recovery Console will not invalidate your activation and cause you to reactivate your...
[August 4, 2002, 19:35]
Study: Win XP Activation 'innocuous' On Privacy
News Microsoft's product-activation technology -- included in the new Office XP software package and scheduled to appear in the new Windows XP operating system -- requires people to activate their PC online or by telephone to continue using the software.
[July 11, 2001, 8:55]
Microsoft May Disable Upgraded PCs
News The new system, called Windows Product Activation, or WPA, first surfaced earlier this year in build 2410 of the new operating system, but few details were released as to exactly how it would work. Microsoft's solution -- called Windows Product...
[March 2, 2001, 22:00]
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]
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]
Installing And Maintaining Windows XP review
Reviews The only real drawback is the Product Activation feature -- specifically, the feeling that it could cause inconvenience and hassle. Microsoft insists that the activation system is completely confidential, that no personal information is exchanged...
[October 30, 2001, 15:19]
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]
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]
Tech Reasons Not To Upgrade To XP
News Mandatory product activation is another reason for not upgrading to Windows XP. Product activation problems 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. In fact, Gartner recommends companies regularly reimaging and subscribing to the Open plan move up to Select, where product...
[October 8, 2001, 11:00]
Rupert Goodwins' Diary
Blog Perhaps the nastiest is Windows Product Activation, or WPA. Everywhere you look there are things you'd rather not have -- smart tags hijacking your web site, icons for Microsoft services on the desktop, product activation -- and while Microsoft is...
[August 10, 2001, 18:27]
Code Leak Spurs Windows Server 2003 Piracy
News With the release of Office XP in May 2001 and Windows XP about six months later, Microsoft added a piracy-fighting tool known as product activation. Product activation went a step further: the computer needed to contact Microsoft over the Internet.
[April 8, 2003, 7:28]
