The Microsoft Software Protection Platform, unveiled formally on Wednesday, requires that all customers consumers who buy PCs and business customers with volume licensing agreements activate their ...

Microsoft’s long, strange trip to protect its software from piracy took another twist last week after the company introduced Microsoft Software Protection Platform for its upcoming Vista and Longhorn ...

One aspect of Microsoft’s Windows Vista operating system that has raised users’ hackles is its new antipiracy system, called Software Protection Platform (SPP). To understand SPP, it’s necessary to ...

If you see the error message Event ID 903, The Software Protection service has stopped in the Event Viewer app on your Windows 11/10 PC, read this post to know how to ...

Microsoft's response was an answer to earlier reports that final code of both Windows Vista and Office 2007 had been posted to BitTorrent download sites, peer-to-peer networks, and Usenet groups. On ...

How YOU doin’? It’s IT Blogwatch, in which Microsoft promises never to kill your PC, oh no, no way, not at all, next question? Not to mention geek wallets… Eric Lai reports it for us: Microsoft Corp.

In the past few years, Microsoft has stepped up its efforts to make sure that the people who use Windows have actually paid for it. Now, with Vista, the company plans to take more drastic antipiracy ...