activation portal

Microsoft’s quiet removal of telephone-based activation for Windows and Office has ended one of the last true offline lifelines for software licensing: callers who once read long Installation IDs into a phone and received a Confirmation ID in return must now complete that exchange through an...

Microsoft has quietly moved its decades‑old telephone-based product activation workflow for Windows and Office to an online-only portal, and the new process requires users to sign in with a Microsoft account (or supported enterprise identity) to complete activation. Background For more than two...

Microsoft appears to have quietly removed the long-standing option to activate Windows by telephone, effectively ending a decades-old offline activation path for Windows 10 and Windows 11 and accelerating a shift that reduces offline activation choices to cloud‑dependent workflows. The change —...

Microsoft has quietly moved its decades‑old telephone activation workflow for Windows and Office into an online-only, account‑backed portal — callers attempting the old phone route now hear an automated message directing them to the Product Activation Portal (aka.ms/aoh /...