I want to buy less than 10 Windows 8.1 64-bit client licenses for a small business under Volume Licensing. In reading about this here, I'm reading that there are all kinds of complex requirements for activation, including that we need to set up a KMS Server to activate? Is there a simpler path to activation for a small company?
What was wrong with just having the OS client activate over the Internet to Microsoft directly? If that's still an option, then why not at least in the documentation make clear that this is the default behavior? The existing descriptions of Activation on Microsoft's site make activation sound like a horror show, and this alone would scare many people away from buying volume lic