Microsoft is going to give OEM activation quite a bump, version-wise, in the next major version of the Windows client.
According to various sources, Windows 8 will feature OEM Activation 3.0 (OA 3.0). This piece of information has not been confirmed by the Redmond company, officially or otherwise.
Windows 7 offered original equipment manufacturers the possibility of using OA 2.1, while Windows Vista came with OA 2.0.
In this regard, I’m extremely curios to see whether the bump from 2.1 to 3.0 for OA will be reflected by the actual evolution of the technology which allows OEMs to activate the copies of Windows 8 they’ll pre-install on new computers.
