"Microsoft windows vista activation methods" this is the hottest search keyword in these days, people those who have pirated Vista copies, breaking the head to get the activation process and keys. Windows earlier versions like windows Xp and Windows 2000, if you use Volume license Key, windows will skip the product Activation Process. Most of the Pirated Copies were available in the market, it has the volume license key. Even there is fake VLK which able to pass the windows genuine Validation Process. Windows Xp and 2000 has been passed away, Now people wandering for Windows Vista, So Let me share you activation rules that Microsoft has been implanted in Vista Activation.

Microsoft is building in strict and punitive "protection" controls into Windows Vista and next Windows Server to ensure that consumers and business customers are properly licensed and using legal copies of Windows.

One of the Method that Microsoft Software Protection Platform, requires that all customers consumers who buy PC and business customers with volume licensing agreements activate their Windows Vista and Windows Longhorn Server licenses with Microsoft and prove that they have a genuine copy of Windows client or server running or face punishment.

If a retail consumer fails to active their product within 30 days of purchase, or tries to activate Vista and fails, key features of the new Windows upgrade the "Aero" user interface, Windows Defender, ReadyBoost performance enhancer, Internet Explorer 7 and Windows Media Player 11 will be disabled.

Vista Business and Vista Enterprise -- the two editions most likely to be deployed in companies -- will use what Microsoft called "VA 2.0" for product activation. Under that program, companies will choose between two mechanisms to manage keys and activate the operating system: Key Management Service or Multiple Activation Key. The former targets shops with more than 25 machines that are always connected to the organization's network, while MAK is similar to retail activation and lets one Windows PC connected to Microsoft vouch for multiple machines. Systems activated using KMS must reactivate at least once every 180 days.

But Microsoft has to remember the "nuclear skills" of Windows product Hackers

All the Best to Microsoft