Fledgling pirates who want to run Windows 11 without a license have a new helper, and it's not who you would expect.

Windows PowerShell is a utility that lets you automate Windows features including activation of the operating system. You must activate Windows with a valid license before all Windows features are ...

A group of hackers has unveiled a major breakthrough in Windows and Office piracy. The new method permanently activates most Microsoft products, completely bypassing the digital rights management (DRM ...

The Software Licensing Service reported that the license could not be found or was invalid. The error code usually means that the user entered the wrong license key ...

Microsoft closed a Windows 7 / 8 key loophole last month, and now people are experiencing issues reactivating some Windows 10 / 11 installs. Microsoft closed a Windows 7 / 8 key loophole last month, ...

Microsoft is investigating issues with Windows activation where users who upgraded to Windows 10/11 for free from Windows 7/8 are having their copies deactivated when they change hardware components ...

[Updated: Mar 4, 2007 @ 16.45 pm] Note to Engadget writers who didn't read this article before commenting ... I never claimed to have found "activation keys," all I saw what that after running the ...

Windows product keys are almost (but not quite) a thing of the past. With Windows 10, Microsoft has rewritten the rules for how it performs product activation on retail upgrades of Windows, including ...