Windows 8 Software Licensing API

If you are developing commercial software, licensing is one thing you need to get right. I was browsing licensing implementation topics on MSDN, and wanted to share some thoughts on Microsoft's Software Licensing API (SLAPI for short). This API has been available since Windows Vista and Windows Server 2008, but it has been extended for Windows 8 and Windows Server 2012.

This SLAPI is mainly for checking whether Windows itself is genuinely licensed and activated, but it can also be used to maintain licenses with the support for a couple of Software Asset Management (SAM) API functions.

For more information about this API, check out the reference pages on MSDN.