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Final fall,Windows 7 Key, Microsoft abruptly halted sales of its Software Licensing and Safety Solutions — a technology similar to its own Genuine activation/anti-piracy mechanism. At the time,Microsoft Office 2007, the Softies said they were seeking a new home for SLP, having decided it no longer fit in with the company;s overall business plans.On June 9,Microsoft Office 2010 Professional Plus, Microsoft announced it had found a taker for SLP. Microsoft licensed SLP to Dublin-based startup IrishTech.Microsoft used its IP Ventures licensing group to move the SLP division directly over to IrishTech. (IP Ventures has found external licensees for a number of Microsoft-nurtered technologies and products the Redmond company has chosen to farm out via IP Ventures. Other include including Wallop,Office Pro 2010, Zumobi (formerly known as ZenZui) and LaunchTile.IrishTech inherits the 120 customers Microsoft had obtained for SLP. Curiously, according to the June 9 press release,Cheap Windows 7, “Microsoft itself intends to be a customer of the new (IrishTech) startup.”