"Corporate Edition" versions of Windows have been the blessing of both IT workers and casual pirates since the days of Windows 95, when the operating system first started asking for a license key ...

Enterprise customers input Volume License Product Key (VLK) to install the software to computer but Microsoft does not enforce or check for compliance, partners say.

To activate a retail version of Microsoft Windows, a user must enter the product key into Windows and then connect to the Internet or call Microsoft to validate the key. But that’s too cumbersome for ...

Want to reuse your existing Windows license key with a new PC? We explain how to determine if that’s possible.

Volume Activation 2.0 will provide system administrators the ability to centrally manage and protect product keys.

Windows expert Jonathan Hassell explains five key points about the Byzantine rules of managing Vista on or off the network.

2) Would changing to a volume license from a retail license force me to reinstall the software using the volume license key? Or should we just replace it on an as-needed basis?

The volume license key, leaked and posted online, allows Windows Server 2003 to be installed on multiple systems without the activation process required for single licenses.

Unlike the retail versions of Office 2007, copies installed using volume license keys -- the typical way large organizations purchase Microsoft's software -- will simply skip product activation ...

A Microsoft Office retail license lets you install the software on one computer. A volume license lets you install it on as many as you want to pay for with one product key.