volume activation

Microsoft is moving Windows volume activation toward a hardware-rooted trust model, adding a new layer of TPM-backed verification for Key Management Service hosts. The change, called KMS Hardware-Secured, is designed to make a legitimate activation server prove that it is operating on trusted...

Microsoft will require TPM-based attestation for KMS Hardware-Secured activation with the next Windows Server Long-Term Servicing Channel release, shifting KMS host trust from a software-only configuration to a hardware-verified identity. The change is intended to make it harder to abuse cloned...

Microsoft has quietly turned one of the last truly offline ways to activate Windows into an online-only process: the decades‑old telephone activation path now redirects callers to a web portal that requires internet access and a signed‑in Microsoft identity, while recent servicing updates and...