Microsoft has taken another step in its effort to keep users constantly connected, quietly eliminating one of the oldest and most useful activation methods — phone activation. Until now, this method ...

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 ...

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 ...