Pirates have cracked Windows 7’s product activation just a week after the operating system made RTM (release to manufacturing) and a week before it’s slated to reach users, Microsoft confirmed today.

So, question about KMS activation, as it relates to Windows 7. We already have a KMS server which activates Windows 2008R2 servers. Works great. So, I want to have a few Windows 7 machines I am ...

In the wake of Microsoft's Windows 10 launch, a one-year grace period was provided for users to activate the system using Windows 7 or 8.1 keys. This functionality, intriguingly, persisted into the ...

Ugh this kinda sucks but I guess it doesn't really matter. I had a bunch of Windows 7 keys from 2009 that have been great with 10 and 11. I get that this free ride is over but it still sucks. It ...

Hackers have managed to find a way around one of the key antipiracy protections built into Windows 7. Ordinarily, the operating system requires users to activate their copy of Windows 7 within 30 days ...

Windows 10 Insider Preview Build 10565 released yesterday with numerous functional improvements, but also a key change in the activation scheme: Windows 7, 8, and 8.1 product keys can be used to ...

On January 8th, 2019, Windows 7 machines that were activated through Key Management Service (KMS) started receiving a "Windows is not genuine" notification indicating that the Windows license was not ...

When Microsoft made Windows 10 a free upgrade for users running Windows 7 or 8.1, one of the biggest gripes users had with the upgrade process was that clean installs were not possible. Due to the way ...

If when you try to activate Windows 11/10, you receive an error message that Windows couldn’t be activated, then this post may help you. Maybe you upgraded to ...