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 ...

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 ...

This post features solutions to fix the Windows Activation error 0x803F700F. Windows activation is a process by Microsoft that verifies that the Windows copy you’re ...

A young Bill Gates once complained about the copying of his company's Altair Basic software by computer hobbyists. This rampant theft, according to Gates, made all the hard work done by him and his ...

<BLOCKQUOTE class="ip-ubbcode-quote"><font size="-1">quote:</font><HR>If I own and XP license, I should be able to use it till 2015 if I want to...<HR></BLOCKQUOTE ...

At the Redmond, Wash., software giant's system builder summit last week in Phoenix, several channel executives criticized Microsoft's activation requirements, which force partners and customers to ...

Hello all. I'm trying restore a Dimesnion 4600 for a friend who had Windows XP reboot problems. I've determined that the hard drive needs to be replaced (it failed the dell HDD diagnostic), or atleast ...