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  2. Microsoft Product Activation - Wikipedia

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    Microsoft Product Activation is a DRM technology used by Microsoft Corporation in several of its computer software programs, most notably its Windows operating system and its Office productivity suite. The procedure enforces compliance with the program's end-user license agreement by transmitting information about both the product key used to ...

  3. List of Microsoft codenames - Wikipedia

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    Internet Explorer 1. Internet Explorer 1, first shipped in Microsoft Plus! for Windows 95: The codename O'Hare ties into the Chicago codename for Windows 95: O'Hare International Airport is the largest airport in the city of Chicago, Illinois — in Microsoft's words, "a point of departure to distant places from Chicago".

  4. List of Microsoft operating systems - Wikipedia

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    Windows Vista: 2007-01-30 Windows Home Server: 2007-11-04 Windows Server 2008: 2008-02-27 Windows Small Business Server 2008: 2008-08-21 Windows Embedded Standard 2009: 2008-12-14 Windows Embedded POSReady 2009: Windows 7: 2009-10-22 Windows Server 2008 R2: Windows Server 2012: 2012-09-04 Windows 8: 2012-10-26 Windows 8.1: 2013-10-17 Windows ...

  5. Another Vista activation bypass: for reals this time? - Engadget

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    Considering that as recently as a couple of days ago lots of people (including us) were potentially duped into believing that someone had created a keygen utility that churned out working serial ...

  6. Upgrade to Vista from XP for free | TechCrunch

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    Chris Pirillo has found a method for upgrading to Vista from XP without activation. It’s a seamless upgrade in the System folder and has been confirmed by Microsoft.

  7. Windows Vista - Wikipedia

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    Windows Vista is a major release of the Windows NT operating system developed by Microsoft. It was the direct successor to Windows XP, released five years earlier, which was then the longest time span between successive releases of Microsoft Windows. It was released to manufacturing on November 8, 2006, and over the following two months, it was ...

  8. Development of Windows Vista - Wikipedia

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    Windows Vista. The development of Windows Vista began in May 2001, [1] prior to the release of Microsoft 's Windows XP operating system, and continuing until November 2006. Microsoft originally expected to ship Vista sometime late in 2003 as a minor step between Windows XP (codenamed "Whistler") and the next planned major release of Windows ...

  9. Product key - Wikipedia

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    Product key on a Proof of License Certificate of Authenticity for Windows Vista Home Premium. A product key, also known as a software key, serial key or activation key, is a specific software-based key for a computer program. It certifies that the copy of the program is original. Product keys consist of a series of numbers and/or letters.