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New Windows 8 Activation OA 3.0

April 5, 2011

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By Mike Johnson

Mike Johnson is a writer for The Redmond Cloud - the most comprehensive source of news and information about Microsoft Azure and the Microsoft Cloud. He enjoys writing about Azure Security, IOT and the Blockchain.

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I don’t like windows activation. I mean I buy the legitimate product, but I still hate it. I hate having to call the phone activation thing after having formatted my PC twice or when Microsoft just decides that it wont let me activate my key anymore for some reason. I guess its an effective method in combating piracy and probably a necessary step, however its a much hated feature amongst many power users.

xinu April 5, 2011 11:56 am Reply
- The problem is its not an effective method in combating piracy
  
  Guest April 6, 2011 9:59 am Reply
  - yes because not everyone will want windows updates so the standalone installation can be cracked and no updates can detect it if they’re not downloaded although they can be downloaded manually using a wat crack for mozilla or firefox and download updates from the site that are critical
    
    Simonbromilow2 May 6, 2011 5:06 am Reply
I’m a student so I get Win 7 for free and my key can install like a hundred times and then I just go talk with a guy on campus to get a new one. good for me since I wipe my harddrive and reinstall every couple months as I notice the computer starting to slow down

John Paul Logan April 6, 2011 3:14 pm Reply
- You are an idiot
  
  JohnHolmes April 8, 2011 1:45 pm Reply
  - Please refrain from insulting others on these comments. You can disagree without being disagreeable.
    
    Onuora Amobi April 8, 2011 1:56 pm Reply
Microsoft can try all it wants, it’s operating systems are always cracked. Those nutcases with all the brains & money can’t even find an acceptable activation solution. The present method sucks!!! For example they could use a unique hardware identifier to embedd information about the software’s usage!!!

Stephen Samuel Netto April 6, 2011 8:49 pm Reply
What a waste of time… This will eventually be cracked, and then useless. 🙂

Guest April 9, 2011 4:44 pm Reply
Here’s a thought. How about charging less than $100 for the OS?
Mac OS X Snow Leopard is $74.90 on Amazon.com for the retail version.
Windows 7 Ultimate is $232.54

Julius Malco October 12, 2011 5:20 am Reply
I have my old PC running so far , I am an unenmployed who live in a third world country, I understand that Microsoft doesen’t have nothing to do with this, but I would like to have Windows 8 in my PC , but my big issue is the fact that I can not pay for it , for us the price of windows is totaly impossible to pay, only the rich can afford the cost of windows and others things.

Jose Segovia February 28, 2012 5:38 am Reply
basically to avoid duplicate distribution

seo india March 18, 2012 1:51 am Reply