and Windows 11, now use a combination of product keys (a unique string of 25 characters), online activation, and hardware fingerprinting (tying your copy of Windows to a specific device ...

Every legal copy of Windows has its own activation key, also called a product key or a product identification (PID). It’s made up of five groups of five characters each, and it’s unique to ...

YouTuber Enderman managed to generate several valid activation keys for Windows 95 by tricking OpenAI's ChatGPT. This was made as a fun exercise as Windows 95 is essentially abandonware now ...

Usually, you'd activate Windows 11 (or 10) using the Settings app to enter the product key. However, if you're in an ...

Popular Windows investigator and malware reviewer Enderman recently extracted an activation key for Windows 95 from the chatbot. He showcased the entire process in a recent YouTube video.

Microsoft is investigating Windows activation issues that appear to be linked to the company’s recent move to block Windows 7 and Windows 8 keys from activating copies of Windows 10 and Windows 11.

We were able to activate a fresh Windows 11 Pro 22H2 install with a Windows 8 Pro product key as of this morning, as was Neowin. But Neowin could not activate a newer Insider Preview build of ...