Every KMS activation has expire date to 6months, unless you did retail activation (needs genuine key)
re-Why would anyone use Windows 8 Pro when Windows 8 Enterprise has more features? Is it because of WMC? I think WMC is crap anyways. My Windows 8 Pro doesn't have WMC but I'm installing Enterprise now because I think it'll activate easier than the Pro via KMS.
What if you don't activate one of your Windows 8 Enterprise 64bit? I know you won't have the option to change your Lock/Start/Account picture and there will be Activation Overlay/Watermark on your desktop. But what the expire date for that does anyone know?
Re-What if you don't activate one of your Windows 8 Enterprise 64bit? I know you won't have the option to change your Lock/Start/Account picture and there will be Activation Overlay/Watermark on your desktop. But what the expire date for that does anyone know? Mine just says rearm count remaining 1000. As of now, I don't think it has an expiration date. Maybe after the retail version is actually in stores M$ will try to disable?
I have a feeling when the release date coming out there's probably updates/patches will probably put an expire date on it. I mean it's just too good to be true because people can live without changing their images or put up with or hacked the overlay/watermark. The rearm thing is just to get rid of that annoying Activation overlay that pop up like every 3 hrs.
You're probably correct. By that time there will probably be some sort of loader produced that will make activation quick and easy (hopefully)
Strange... Why can we have 1000 rearms? It wouldn't expire in that case...Windows 10 or 11 would have been released by then
"Why would anyone use Windows 8 Pro when Windows 8 Enterprise has more features? Is it because of WMC? I think WMC is crap anyways." Enterprise has no useful additional features for non large business users. Pro is also activated for longer than 6 months. And while WMC is crap, Pro also goes and installs a s**t load of codecs for media viewing. No a huge thing, but something. I "downgraded" to windows 8 pro just yesterday so i could have correct working video app, and some other crap i don't actually use because of vlc player. (Enterprise just closed the video and music app because of missing codecs. I had no luck with K-lite pack, but many claim it worked for them.) Only reason i'd bother going back to enterprise would be if i purchased a slate, which wont happen, and other than that the additional 'features' are completely useless crap that even if i could use, i wouldn't, because i would be running windows server 2000 and whatever version its up to. Point is, for almost every non business user, pro is as good, if not better than enterprise editions. (Although there is a certain nice feeling bout owning an entire enterprise package for just one computer - its nice to waste sometimes.) On another note - As i said before, when i registered windows 8 (both pro and enterprise times) windows 7 on my machine deactivated (cracked). I can confirm that simply switching the bootloader back to windows 7 boot loader does nothing - but I was simply able to activate windows 7 again, without deactivating windows 8. So go nuts and recrack windows 7, doesn't bother windows 8 - and the activation seems to be holding fine.
re-The rearm thing is just to get rid of that annoying Activation overlay that pop up like every 3 hrs. I've never recieved any notification about activation, no pop ups, overlays or anything.
re-Strange... Why can we have 1000 rearms? It wouldn't expire in that case...Windows 10 or 11 would have been released by then Exactly. There's no need to stress over activation because we have 1000 rearms if needed until a solution arises.
only problem is that in win8 the rearm is not the same as in previous vers of windows, it basically does next to nothing
Without clearing KMS Server the system at regular intervals connects to the server to prove activation. In case of no response it seems to deactivate. Only hope is a new Server.