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    Microsoft Ends Telephone Activation: Windows and Office Move Online‑Only

    Microsoft has quietly moved the decades‑old telephone activation workflow for Windows and Office into an online‑only process that now requires signing in with a supported Microsoft identity — a change that effectively ends a fully offline, anonymous activation path and creates immediate...
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    Windows Activation Goes Online Only as Phone Activation Is Removed

    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 —...
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    • Forum: Windows News
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    Azure & Open OnDemand Revolutionize HPC Accessibility with Slurm & AMD Support

    For anyone who’s ever battled with an HPC cluster, watching as cryptic SLURM commands and arcane SSH rituals defeated your best intentions, there’s a new glimmer of hope on the as-a-service horizon. Azure, along with its regular cast of cloud and silicon heroes, is unleashing a dynamic duo: Open...
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    • Forum: Windows News
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    Windows 7 Issues Opening Old Word Documents in Office 2010 on New PC

    Hi, A few quick questions on Word. We recently built a new PC that is running the 32 bit version of 7 Home Prem. We moved a bunch of word docs from an older maching running XP Home generated in, I believe, Word 2001(if there is such an animal...it was pre-installed on a Dell we purchased new...
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    • Forum: Windows Software