Microsoft third-party licensing and activation server set to

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In July, Microsoft announced its intentions to deliver a number of licensing technologies to third-party vendors interesting in deploying Microsoft-like activation and licensing in their products One of those components, the Software Licensing and Protection Server, is likely to be released to manufacturing on August 31, according to a Microsoft blog entry by a member of the SLP team.

The SLP server will allow third-party software vendors to host their own servers and create software licenses -- machine-based, time-based, user-based and/or feature-based -- for their products.