A recorded voice on Microsoft's activation hotline delivers a stark message: "Support for product activation has moved online. For the fastest and most convenient way to activate your product, please ...

For more than two decades, Microsoft offered a simple and discreet way to activate Windows and Office without the internet: phone activation. That option is now gone. Since late December 2025, ...

Microsoft has effectively retired phone-based product activation for Windows and Office, closing off another offline path that users—particularly those on older operating systems—have relied on for ...

Microsoft has quietly taken another step toward an entirely online ecosystem, effectively ending phone-based activation for Windows and Office products. While the company has not made a formal ...

Black flag down: Microsoft has closed an activation loophole that was widely used by software pirates to run Windows and Office without a legitimate license. The group behind the activation tool has ...

Still running Windows or Office that you downloaded from random sites? That might be riskier than you think. Cracked software often hides viruses, trojans, or ransomware that can steal your data, hack ...

RICHLAND, Wash. - The Department of Energy (DOE) Hanford Field Office will activate sirens between 1:30 p.m. and 2:30 p.m. tomorrow as part of an emergency drill. DOE said that they regularly conduct ...

The “Product Activation Failed” error in Microsoft Word and other Office applications (such as Excel, PowerPoint, etc.) occurs when the software cannot verify its ...

I'm currently learning about sysadmin tasks and focusing on KMS activation. I've set up a testing environment with the following configuration: A Windows 10 machine running Docker. Inside Docker, I ...