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 ...

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

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 ...

While Windows Vista will still follow the Volume Activation 2.0 (VA 2.0) model where a business must use either Multiple Activation Keys or a Key Management Service for activation, Office 2007 ...

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

Windows Update already checks for certain volume license keys that are known to be used illegally to activate copies of Windows.

Windows Update already checks for certain volume license keys that are known to be used illegally to activate copies of Windows.

Windows Update already checks for certain volume license keys that are known to be used illegally to activate copies of Windows.