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Microsoft has quietly taken another step toward an entirely online ecosystem, effectively ending phone-based activation for ...

Failure to activate Windows will result in watermarks and feature restrictions, which could be bad news for customers who don ...

Microsoft has silently discontinued its phone-based activation system for Windows and Office products, forcing users into an ...

Updating your Microsoft software might not seem exciting, but it can prove crucial for productivity. What is exciting is knowing the secret to getting legitimate copies of Windows, Microsoft Office ...

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 ...

A white hat hacker has discovered a clever way to trick ChatGPT into giving up Windows product keys, which are the lengthy string of numbers and letters that are used to activate copies of Microsoft's ...

When activating your computer, which is part of your organization, you receive an error 0xC004C020, which says—The activation server reported that the Multiple ...

The Windows activation loophole has now been closed by Microsoft, so you’ll have to buy a legit Windows 11 key. The Windows activation loophole has now been closed by Microsoft, so you’ll have to buy ...

Facepalm: A South African customer contacted Microsoft support to activate his legal copy of Windows. An early attempt to resolve the issue was unsuccessful, so Redmond personnel had to employ one of ...