Microsoft has quietly killed an offline option to activate Windows 10 and 11: phone activation. According to Neowin, the ...

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Microsoft has reportedly removed the ability to activate Windows 11 and Windows 10 without an internet connection.

Microsoft has seemingly disabled phone call activation for Windows 11, and perhaps older versions as well, making it ...

Windows 11 users running an inactivated copy of the operating system may find that in the future, there's a further penalty exacted on them for failing to activate - and it involves Microsoft's Edge ...

In context: Windows activation has been a part of PC users' lives since the Windows XP era, though Microsoft has made things a bit easier with Windows 10 and Windows 11. Now, on a non-activated OS, ...