WoW..... It is interesting to see now how news are created and that's probably the best info in this thread. I do not blame somebody personally. But you can see it started by some twitter comments It also shows that it is not easy for the MDL moderation team to moderate w8 threads atm. MDL wants to be informative, with facts only. I know for sure that recent builds don't have any new activation system yet.
Just have to wait and see, although I have no interest in this topic since I have been using MS compli disks for Vista & 7, probably for 8. And Angel doesn't have to take it so bad on himself, a quick run on a few of the "news", seems some get the info from Softpedia(and that's how I got the links in the first place).
Activation procedure in W8 is really changed after Milestone1. OA 3.0 It's really developed. Details not present.
Proof? I have sources confirming the old slmgr commands are still accepting certs. and switching channel at recent builds....maybe OA3 is implemented but locked then??? lol...
Ok, thanks. But I would have expected by an major upgrade a totally new way of activation, you know? No more slmgr at all. I thought you cannot activate w8 atm....all generic keys that are accepted allow an installation remaining at initial grace period and no activation at all. I guess OA2.1 is still a part of w8 activation but disabled to activate. And I guess OA3.0 is still missing.....not finished yet
If it anything like Office 2010 updating your DVD burner firmware and turn off your network adapter causes you to have to activate it all the time because hardware change is going to suck but you can change Cpu and Ram it works fine
You could be right. Maybe the programming stuff is done already and the specifications are made... They needed a : As OEM Activation 3.0 (OA 3.0) Named On-Boarding and Launch Program Manager
It's not the latest. Latest is 6.2.7979.0.winmain.110406-1800 (thanks to Zuko; it was already posted here before, though).