Microsoft Corp. will change how users activate Windows XP when Service Pack 3 launches in the first half of 2008, a company white paper said. New installations of Windows XP SP3 will give users the ...

At the Redmond, Wash., software giant's system builder summit last week in Phoenix, several channel executives criticized Microsoft's activation requirements, which force partners and customers to ...

Activation is only a button press not an actual key that you have to enter like the product key.<P>You have a choice of activate now>next.<BR>Or something similar to activate later>next.<P>Choose one ...

Windows 3.1 wasn't shipped until 1992, and MS DOS 6 (which, if you're still using DOS on any of your computers, is probably the version you're using) wasn't released until 1993 (four months prior to ...