In Microsoft's battle against software piracy, the first round goes to pirates, even though the starting bell hasn't even rung yet. Microsoft's new operating system, Windows XP, won't be in stores for ...

Thai computer users are buying thousands of pirated copies of Microsoft's new Windows XP operating system a week ahead of its… Thai computer users are buying thousands of pirated copies of Microsoft's ...

Microsoft’s announcement today that it would keep Windows XP (Home edition only) available until June 30, 2010 — not June 30, 2008, as originally planned — for the emerging class of ultra-low-cost PCs ...

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 ...

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. The update to Windows Activation ...

Pirates have cracked Windows 7’s product activation just a week after the operating system made RTM and a week before it’s slated to reach users, Microsoft confirmed today. The product key posted on ...

Cyberattacks against ATMs aren't new, but until now they've mostly required the attackers to have physical access to the target machine in order to compromise it. However, a joint report by Europol ...

Windows XP’s retail release was October 25, 2001, ten years ago today. Though no longer readily available to buy, it continues to cast a long shadow over the PC industry: even now, a slim majority of ...

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