Microsoft's Windows Vista activation process has been cracked - by using brute force technique. Written by Adrian Kingsley-Hughes, Senior Contributing Editor March 1, 2007 at 9:02 a.m. PT ...

If a retail consumer fails to active their product within 30 days of purchase, or tries to activate Vista and fails, key features of the new Windows upgrade the "Aero" user interface, Windows ...

KezNews.com posted information about, and a tool for, cranking out legitimate Windows Vista activation keys. But even though the tool churns through 20,000 keys an hour, it could take billions ...

This is inaccurate. This crack uses Vista itself to check that the key is in an acceptable format. Only after a key that's accepted by Vista does the user have to attempt activation.

Windows Vista can be run for at least a year without being activated, a serious end run around one of Microsoft Corp. ‘s key antipiracy measures, Windows expert Brian Livingston said Thursday.

You can manage activations and product keys over the network There is software, called the Key Management Service (KMS), that can run on Windows Server 2003 machines with Service Pack 1 or later ...

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 ...

Vista’s activation, part of Microsoft’s overall Windows Genuine Advantage (WGA) anti-counterfeit program, validates the license’s product key to make sure that a key is used only once.

Or you can take some precautions beforehand. If your PC is still running, you can get the activation key from Windows itself. The apply-titled program ProduKey does this job quickly and easily.

Vista’s activation, part of Microsoft’s overall Windows Genuine Advantage (WGA) anti-counterfeit program, validates the license’s product key to make sure that a key is used only once.