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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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    Janus is a Roman god usually depicted with two faces, here symbolizing the previously separate Windows and MS-DOS products. [2] Jastro. —. Windows & MS-DOS 6. Combined bundle of Windows 3.1 and MS-DOS 6. Portmanteau of Janus and Astro, the codename of MS-DOS 6. [3] Sparta, Winball.

  4. Criticism of Windows XP - Wikipedia

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    Product activation. In an attempt to reduce piracy, Microsoft introduced product activation in Windows XP. Activation required the computer or the user to activate with Microsoft (either online or over the phone) within a certain amount of time in order to continue using the operating system.

  5. Volume licensing - Wikipedia

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    With the release of Windows XP in 2001, Microsoft introduced Microsoft Product Activation, a digital rights management (DRM) scheme to curb software piracy among consumers by verifying the user's entitlement to the product license. At the time, however, the volume-licensed versions of Windows XP were exempt from this measure. (See ...

  6. List of terminal emulators - Wikipedia

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    Serial port, Telnet, SSH, tn3270, tn5250, SNA. Windows. Rumba and allows users to connect to legacy systems (typically a mainframe ) rxvt. Character. Local. X11, Wayland. Unix-based. Rxvt is a terminal emulator for the X Window System, and in the form of a Cygwin port, for Windows.

  7. Product key - Wikipedia

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    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. This sequence is typically entered by the user during the installation of computer software, and is ...

  8. 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 ...

  9. System Locked Pre-installation - Wikipedia

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    It is most probable that an individual OEM royalty is much less than the retail price of the same version of Windows. The product key sticker attached to OEM computers, prior to Windows 8, will not activate the copy of windows supplied with the machine. Only the SLP key can do that and the product key is never requested during activation.