Microsoft Corp., tacitly acknowledging the continued popularity of Windows XP, said Tuesday it was updating the operating system’s anti-piracy technology to detect illegal copies installed with ...

The company found 34 percent of the software copies could not be installed, and 43 percent had code that was not part of genuine Windows Microsoft has published findings of research around counterfeit ...

I am working on someone's system and I want to authenticate that their Server OEM packs are genuine and not counterfeit. The customer is nervous because the text on the label is slightly different ...

For example, deactivating Windows automatically makes it counterfeit, not genuine. I did this recently with the following result. I'm not at all comfortable with upgrading my hardware automatically ...