Customer service representatives provide local language support. Unique to the product key used during installation Hardware hash. Top 10 Myths About Product Activation Product activation will hamper corporate customers deployment of software. Actually, corporate customers should only be minimally impacted, if at all. Licenses acquired by customers through one of Microsoft s volume licensing programs will not require activation.
Product activation is an invasion of privacy.
Microsoft absolutely respects the privacy of its customers and does not ask for any personally identifiable information to activate a product. Product Activation is completely anonymous. Once created, the hash information cannot be calculated back to its original values. Hardware information is sent through the algorithm in the software on the PC not at Microsoft to create the hash. The raw hardware information is not known or sent to Microsoft.