I just received a nice new Dell Latitude. It came with "Genuine Windows Vista Business Bonus-Windows XP Professional downgrade" which means it has media for both OSs. Both are 32-bit and being the ...

When you buy a retail copy of Windows Vista, the most important part of your purchase is the product key that comes with it. That 25-character key determines which Vista edition you're allowed to ...

Fighting Windows Vista's piracy protection? Perhaps trying to guess a product activation key will solve the problem. A "brute force" key generator that randomly tries a variety of 25-digit codes until ...

Since Windows Vista has been released to the public, there has been a lot of confusion and hype surrounding some of the licensing decisions and restrictions with which Microsoft Corp. saddled the ...

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 ...

I've been reading the breathless reports from other websites this week about the "Vista upgrade loophole." Most of it is typical echo-chamber stuff, and most of the reports I've read so far have ...

Microsoft's now giving away more Windows Vista Preview Product Keys. If you didn't get yours back in June when the beta download was released, now's your chance! Get daily tips, tricks, and tech ...

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 ...

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 ...