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Note that although I believe the XP activation servers have shut down, the private key for the product key itself was cracked long ago, shortly after the docume
by userbinator 3y ago
Note that although I believe the XP activation servers have shut down, the private key for the product key itself was cracked long ago, shortly after the document in this article, but the scene kept that development pretty quiet for a while. Relevant reading: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35993044 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35993044
- smileybarry 3y agoIIRC you can still activate XP keys by phone. I did that a year ago when I set up a Windows XP VM for classic games.
- daveoc64 3y agoI did it last week, but it was a bit hard to navigate through the automated phone system as it's so geared up to Windows 10/11.
- smileybarry 3y agoHah, the local line here still has something like "Press 1 for Windows 10/11, press 2 for Windows 7/8/8.1, press 3 for older versions".
- _chu1 3y agoI activated Office XP on Windows 98 over the phone a while ago on my Pentium III machine.