Buyers of new PCs may have to grapple with Microsoft Product Activation, a controversial new Windows feature. Users who buy PCs with Microsoft Windows XP could find their setup disabled if they change ...

Microsoft Corp. will change how users activate Windows XP when Service Pack 3 launches in the first half of 2008, a company white paper said. New installations of Windows XP SP3 will give users the ...

At the Redmond, Wash., software giant's system builder summit last week in Phoenix, several channel executives criticized Microsoft's activation requirements, which ...

<BLOCKQUOTE class="ip-ubbcode-quote"><font size="-1">quote:</font><HR>If I own and XP license, I should be able to use it till 2015 if I want to...<HR></BLOCKQUOTE ...

Windows 3.1 wasn't shipped until 1992, and MS DOS 6 (which, if you're still using DOS on any of your computers, is probably the version you're using) wasn't released until 1993 (four months prior to ...