Microsoft may have discovered the ultimate turnoff. The company's new product-activation technology, which locks Office XP or Windows XP to a particular PC hardware configuration, can deactivate ...

The software giant decides to exclude the technology that could alter the Web surfing habits of millions of consumers from the version of its next-generation operating system. Scott Ard Former Editor ...

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So just what is the deal-e-oh here?<BR><BR>I cannot print [some] documents created in Word 2000 [all up-to-date] when in Windows XP Professional SP3 [all up-to-date]. It would seem that *table* ...

Recently my "old" xp pro main box needed a new motherboard.. and now Office XP Pro 2002 won't "activate." I have the original disks... and even when I put in the main disk.. and I have the Product Key ...

If you can’t pull the plug, you might as well fire it up again. That’s the flavor of Microsoft’s latest response to the staunch refusal of the 30-something percent of PC users sticking with Windows XP ...