ok, activated, my time zone was wrong.. it should be GMT+8 but it was in GMT-8, changed it back to GMT+8, and it works.. Thanks to the guys who found the server..
No its 180 days from activation. I tried and The server is still working. I activated 2 more laptops with windows 8 pro and mine tells its 3/23/2013
Best chances for a system not getting activated might caused in (de)"hacktivating"/watermarking, wrong keys, time sync or (as proven here offten) in an obviously lack of knowledge. Crude world...so far. regards
Anyone know what the chances are of action being taken against your live account if Msoft finds evidence of this kind of activation? Kind of worried I won't be able to use my account when I get legitimately upgraded.
Don't use your live account when illegally activating Windows? Anyway they probably won't care about your live account to be fair.
Due to the fact no one can give a definite answer, i wouldn´t recommend doing so...seems to me like leaving your passport after robbing a bank.... regards
I would say it's more like stealing a few bucks from a bank together with thousands of other people leaving their passports. Nobody really cares unless you try selling the few bucks for 100s of bucks as odiebugs writes. I've been using my account on two machines. Why would MS check your live account and go out and sniff your network traffic for KMS server interaction ? However, if they see somebody selling keys or copies of Windows 8 it's an entirely different story. Please give me a single incidence when a live account has been disabled. Just one..... It was already concluded in the other thread that closed that this is just scaring people for no reason. That is not only my two cents.
I just tried it, seconds ago. still working good... Check your time settings... slmgr /skms 147.---.-.-- slmgr.vbs -ato
can i get some help please? i just tried with kms.sjtu.edu.cn:1688 and it failed... any ideas? thanks