There seem to be a lot of reports to the contrary. Apparently, over a million legitimate Windows users have been wrongly informed that their copy of Windows is not "genuine". And now the hackers are stealing activation keys from the legitimate users, which will result in more hassle and irritation for Microsoft customers.
Fortunately, there are other popular operating systems that don't require activation keys at all.
no for the PC, and Windows is the MOST dominate period. All the others are marginal at best.
"That's completely incorrect. Legitimate users of Windows have to deal with activation for a minute or two and in the vast majority of cases they never see it again.
There seem to be a lot of reports to the contrary. Apparently, over a million legitimate Windows users have been wrongly informed that their copy of Windows is not "genuine". And now the hackers are stealing activation keys from the legitimate users, which will result in more hassle and irritation for Microsoft customers.
Fortunately, there are other popular operating systems that don't require activation keys at all."
Back when I was still playing Half Life or Team Fortress/Day of Defeat. There was always an issue of people stealing your Half Life Keys. Valve looked at it as oh well buy another copy. Our Admins were good at recognizing who had legitimate key(usually a regular player) and somebody that just happen to show up and have a key of a regular player.