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2. Microsoft Product Activation - Wikipedia

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   The procedure enforces compliance with the program's end-user license agreement by transmitting information about both the product key used to install the program and the user's computer hardware to Microsoft, inhibiting or completely preventing the use of the program until the validity of its license is confirmed. [1]

3. System Locked Pre-installation - Wikipedia

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   Microsoft released what they referred to as generic product keys (sometimes default keys or simply generic keys) that users can enter to avoid product activation on any SLP-enabled computer. These keys are entered only to use the operating system without an OEM product key, as new installations require entering a product key before being able ...

4. Product activation - Wikipedia

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   Product activation is a license validation procedure required by some proprietary software programs. Product activation prevents unlimited free use of copied or replicated software. Unactivated software refuses to fully function until it determines whether it is authorized to fully function. Activation allows the software to stop blocking its use.

5. Windows 10 - Wikipedia

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   The Microsoft Services agreement reads that the company's online services may automatically "download software updates or configuration changes, including those that prevent you from accessing the Services, playing counterfeit games, or using unauthorized hardware peripheral devices."

6. Microsoft Windows - Wikipedia

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   Windows is a product line of proprietary graphical operating systems developed and marketed by Microsoft.It is grouped into families and subfamilies that cater to particular sectors of the computing industry – Windows (unqualified) for a consumer or corporate workstation, Windows Server for a server and Windows IoT for an embedded system.

7. Product key - Wikipedia

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   The 25 characters of the Product Key form a base-24 encoding of the binary representation of the Product Key. The Product Key is a multi-precision integer of roughly 115 bits, which is stored in little endian byte order in an array of 15 bytes. Of these 15 bytes the least significant four bytes contain the Raw Product Key in little endian byte ...

8. Microsoft Store - Wikipedia

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   Microsoft previously maintained a similar digital distribution system for software known as Windows Marketplace, which allowed customers to purchase software online.The marketplace tracked product keys and licenses, allowing users to retrieve their purchases when switching computers. [3]

9. Microsoft Office 2021 - Wikipedia

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   Microsoft Office 2021 (third release codenamed Office 16) is a version of the Microsoft Office suite of applications for the Microsoft Windows and macOS operating systems. It was released on October 5, 2021. [ 6 ]