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 ...

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 ...

Back in January earlier this year, we reported on the deprecation of one of the official ways of activating Microsoft products including Windows 11 and 10, as well as Office. The company had killed ...