Activation Lock Won’t Go Away After iOS Update? Here’s Why & How to Resolve

Stuck on Activation Lock after an iOS update? Learn why it happens and follow simple, safe steps to unlock your iPhone or ...

Microsoft Quietly Ends Offline Activation for Windows 11/10

Microsoft has reportedly removed the ability to activate Windows 11 and Windows 10 without an internet connection.
Business Matters

Bought an iCloud-Locked iPhone? Here’s How to Bypass Activation Lock Safely

Purchase of a pre-owned Apple iPhone and it is stuck on Activation Lock? Find out what Activation Lock is, the reasons behind ...
ZDNet

Can you really get Windows and Office for free? These hackers say yes

A group of developers who call themselves Massgrave have successfully hacked Microsoft's activation tools for Windows and Office. The collective has uploaded a set of PowerShell scripts to their ...

Fake MAS Windows activation domain used to spread PowerShell malware

A typosquatted domain impersonating the Microsoft Activation Scripts (MAS) tool was used to distribute malicious PowerShell ...
Computerworld

Tool cracks Vista activation for the ultrapatient

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 ...
Computerworld

Microsoft Slow to Turn On Vista Activation Tools

Unlike most large organizations, the University of Oklahoma plans to deploy Windows Vista on more than one quarter of its 65,000 PCs by the end of this year. Because of those early migration plans, ...