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 ...

Windows XP is the operating system that just won't die. After its 2001 release, XP would go on to sell more than 400 million copies. Microsoft tried to end support for the OS several times over the ...

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. It ...

A now-suspended Twitter user claimed successfully generating Windows keys using ChatGPT ChatGPT and Google Bard asked to act as "deceased grandmother" to read activation codes Europol warned about the ...

This post features solutions to fix the Windows Activation Error 0x8007251D. This error code usually occurs while trying to activate Windows, indicating a problem ...

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; its ...

It has never been too hard for someone with the right amount of time, desperation, or flexible scruples to get around Windows XP's activation scheme. And yet XP activation, the actual encrypted ...