An anonymous hacker who claimed last week to have found a way to generate valid Windows Vista activation codes now says his crack was a joke. But some users who tried it say it worked for them.

A Windows user was surprised by Microsoft support staff using an unofficial script to 'crack' his Windows install.

A Twitter user tricked OpenAI's ChatGPT and Google Bard into providing Windows activation keys by asking the chatbots to act as their grandmother.

Why do this? Lol Partly because of people like me that would buy $5 windows 7 keys on key reseller sites and use them to activate windows 10/11 on new PCs.

In an unexpected twist, a Microsoft support engineer resorted to running an unofficial 'crack' on a customer's Windows PC after a genuine copy of the operating system failed to activate normally ...

KB971033 update for WAT is now live and helps detect validation errors, activation exploits, and any tampering attempts made to important Windows 7 system files.

Microsoft today said it will soon will feed Windows 7 users an update that detects illegal copies installed using more than 70 different activation cracks.

A YouTuber, who goes by the handle Enderman, managed to get ChatGPT to create valid Windows 95 activation codes. He initially just asked the bot outright to ...