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 ...

Phone activation for Windows has been discontinued. You'll have to use an online portal to activate Windows. The portal requires a Microsoft or business account. Microsoft has typically offered a few ...

Microsoft has quietly shut down the last official way to activate Windows by phone, a change that lands hardest on people who work and travel in places where a stable internet connection is never ...

When Microsoft first launched the Windows operating system, installing it was only a matter of copying the program onto a disk. You didn't have to verify your copy of Windows. Starting with Windows XP ...

This week's release of the latest Windows 10 Insider build, 10565, brought plenty of great improvements to the OS. However, one of the more interesting changes that Microsoft slipped in deals with ...

Microsoft Corp. today confirmed an issue with its Windows Activation service that has seen some users downgraded from Windows 10 Pro to Windows 10 Home. The first reports of the issue appeared on ...

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 young Bill Gates once complained about the copying of his company's Altair Basic software by computer hobbyists. This rampant theft, according to Gates, made all the hard work done by him and his ...

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 ...

Windows 11/10 has a complicated mechanism for Activation. It helps in the verification of a genuine copy of Windows. But sometimes, it throws the error code ...