With the corporate delivery of Windows Vista imminent, Microsoft is also rolling out a new volume licensing scheme for business customers. Meanwhile, the company yesterday backed away from consumer ...

"Corporate Edition" versions of Windows have been the blessing of both IT workers and casual pirates since the days of Windows 95, when the operating system first started asking for a license key on ...

A black-letter day for pirates everywhere: Windows Vista will change Microsoft's corporate Volume Licensing (VLK) system to reduce the occurance of unpurchased copies and leaked codes. The VLK is a ...

To activate a retail version of Microsoft Windows, a user must enter the product key into Windows and then connect to the Internet or call Microsoft to validate the key. But that’s too cumbersome for ...

Microsoft Corp. last week confirmed that it is overhauling its antipiracy technology for Windows Vista in an effort to plug a potential software license security hole among corporate users and avoid ...

Windows Vista, Microsoft’s newest OS and arguably its largest project ever has finally hit Beta 2. Windows Vista is the latest and most complex operating system to emerge from Microsoft’s Redmond, WA ...

Windows Vista’s launch in late 2006 and early 2007 was one of the toughest chapters in Microsoft’s history. There’s still a lot to learn from Vista. That thought struck me this weekend as I was ...