Microsoft Corp. will feed Windows Vista users an update in the next week to finger illegal copies installed with cracks that the company will bust when it rolls out Service Pack 1 (SP1) in mid-March.

In an unexpected twist, a Microsoft support engineer resorted to running an unofficial 'crack' on a customer's Windows PC after a genuine copy of the operating system failed to activate normally. It ...

Microsoft today said it will soon will feed Windows 7 users an update that detects illegal copies installed using more than 70 different activation cracks. The update to Windows Activation ...

Microsoft has filed a lawsuit against anonymous "John Does 1-10" whom they allege have broken Microsoft's PlaysForSure DRM with stolen source code. The only currently-known "John Doe" in the case is a ...

Conspiracy theorists and suspicious security experts have said for years that Microsoft cooperates with the National Security Agency, handing over reams of data to help the NSA decrypt communications.