The Microsoft Software Protection Platform, unveiled formally on Wednesday, requires that all customers consumers who buy PCs and business customers with volume licensing agreements activate their ...

The unknown hacker who claimed last week that a tool he’d created could generate valid Windows Vista activation codes has admitted that the crack was cracked. “Fact is the brute force keygen is a joke ...

A Web site posted a tool yesterday that can apparently crack Windows Vista’s activation process by applying brute force — and lots of time — to come up with valid product keys, circumventing one of ...

Microsoft's Windows Vista activation process has been cracked - by using brute force technique. Users over on the Keznews forum (registration required, summary here that doesn't require sign up) have ...

Back in September, Ars discussed two ways that Microsoft volume licensing customers could activate Windows Vista. One method, the Multiple Activation Key (MAK), required that machine keys be ...

Ed Bott has been digging in to the Microsoft’s Vista Activation policies in a Microsoft document entitled Product Activation in Windows Vista and Windows Server 2008. Through that document and other ...

[Updated: Mar 4, 2007 @ 16.45 pm] Note to Engadget writers who didn't read this article before commenting ... I never claimed to have found "activation keys," all I saw what that after running the ...

Editor’s Note: This story is reprinted from Computerworld. For more Mac coverage, visit Computerworld’s Macintosh Knowledge Center. The unknown hacker who claimed last week that a tool he’d created ...

Editor’s note: This story was reprinted from Computerworld. For more of Computerworld’s coverage of the Mac, visit its Mac Knowledge Center. A Web site posted a tool Thursday that can apparently crack ...