Software King of the World, Microsoft, has published a new support page explaining why it binned phone-based activation. “Beginning December 3, 2025, the traditional telephone-based product activation ...

Microsoft has quietly shut down the last official way to activate Windows by phone, a change that lands hardest on people who work and travel in places where a stable internet connection is never ...

At the beginning of this year, Microsoft quietly pulled the plug on the last way to activate Windows 10 or Windows 11 without an Internet connection. Up until that point, it was possible to activate ...

Microsoft officially ended telephone activation for Windows on December 3, 2025, requiring users to activate through an online portal instead. PCWorld notes discrepancies between Microsoft’s actions ...