Above all else, Microsoft is launching the update in an effort to discern whether Windows 7 installed on a PC is authentic or pirated. The antipiracy upgrade, known as Windows Activation Technologies ...

That didn’t take long. It has only been a week since the official Windows 7 RTM announcement by Microsoft, but crackers have already managed to activate and validate the tricked-out Ultimate version ...

Now how about we get rid of activation altogether? Activation seriously impairs the usability of Windows. I remember (back in the day) taking a hard drive with Windows 95 out of a computer, putting ...

OEM key cracks, like the one that broke Windows 7 wide open just two days ago, are as old as Windows itself. But it looks like this one surfaced a little too early ...

Blogger Rafael Rivera (withinwindows.com) has a crack tool that unlocks some of the Windows 7 features disabled and hidden in the pre-beta software. A pre-beta version was handed out to developers at ...

Microsoft today said it will soon will feed Windows 7 users an update that detects illegal copies installed using more than 70 different activation cracks. The update to Windows Activation ...