IBM developers complained about the terseness and lack of comments in Microsoft's code, while Microsoft developers complained that IBM's code was bloated.

The Microsoft Developer Network ( MSDN ) is the portion of Microsoft responsible for managing the firm's relationship with developers and testers, such as: hardware developers interested in the operating system ( OS ), and software developers standing on the various OS platforms or using the API and / or scripting languages of Microsoft's applications.

On February 20, 2004, the developers of wxWindows announced that the project was changing its name to wxWidgets, as a result of Microsoft requesting Julian Smart to respect Microsoft's United Kingdom trademark of the term Windows.

The momentum generated by Rose and the UML enabled Rational to establish a partnership with developers to the Windows platform ; Rational's aim was to secure Microsoft's public support for Catapulse — an independent company aimed at providing hosted software development services using products from Rational and elsewhere.

During this time the system, with the Windows client, also became the foundation for Microsoft's first on-line service for developers, the Microsoft Partner Network ( MSPN ).

Edit-and-continue is held by many developers as Microsoft's greatest asset given to developers.

Channel 9 is a Microsoft community site used to promote conversations among Microsoft's customers targeted at Microsoft Windows users and developers.

Shared Source programs allow individuals and organizations to access Microsoft's source code for reference ( e. g. when developing complementary systems ), for review and auditing from a security perspective ( mostly wanted by some large corporations and governments ), and for development ( academic institutions, OEMs, individual developers ).

The RTM news was announced at Microsoft's MIX 07 conference for web developers and designers.

Guests from Microsoft come on stage and discuss specific topics of interest to developers, in particular issues connected to Microsoft's. NET technology.

Microsoft's stated goal with version 7 was to fix the most significant bugs and areas which caused the most trouble for developers, however full compatibility with standards was postponed.

Notably, C #, the language for XNA ( Microsoft's toolkit that facilitates video game development on the Xbox 360, Windows Phone 7 and the PC ) and Objective-C, the language for the iPhone's Cocoa touch API, the popularity of which has grown greatly since 2008, due to the accessibility of the App Store to independent developers.

Microsoft's Professional Developers Conference ( PDC ) is a conference for software developers, normally Windows developers.

The RTM news was announced at Microsoft's MIX 07 conference for web developers and designers.

Companies take different attitudes towards such practices, ranging from open acceptance ( such as Texas Instruments for its graphing calculators and Lego for its Lego Mindstorms robotics gear ) to outright hostility ( such as Microsoft's attempts to lock out Xbox hackers or the DRM routines on Blu-ray Disc players designed to sabotage compromised players ).

Windows NT version 3. 51 was Microsoft's entry into this field, and took away market share from Novell ( the dominant player ) in the following years.

Windows XP lasted longer as Microsoft's flagship operating system than any other version of Windows, from 25 October 2001 to 30 January 2007 when it was succeeded by Windows Vista.

However, machinima artists, such as Edgeworks Entertainment, protested the prohibitions on extending Microsoft's fictional universes ( a common component of fan fiction ) and on selling anything from sites hosting derivative works.

Compounding the reaction was the license's statement, " If you do any of these things, you can expect to hear from Microsoft's lawyers who will tell you that you have to stop distributing your items right away.

It differs from Microsoft's declaration in that it addresses machinima specifically instead of general game-derived content, allows use of game audio if Blizzard can legally license it, requires derivative material to meet the Entertainment Software Rating Board's Teen content rating guideline, defines noncommercial use differently, and does not address extensions of fictional universes.

SVG has been in development since 1999 by a group of companies within the W3C after the competing standards Precision Graphics Markup Language ( PGML ) – developed from Adobe's PostScript – and Vector Markup Language ( VML ) – developed from Microsoft's RTF – were submitted to W3C in 1998.

At the time, Oracle wished to differentiate their server-oriented software from Microsoft's desktop-oriented products.

Many other word processing applications exist, including WordPerfect ( which dominated the market from the mid-1980s to early-1990s on computers running Microsoft's MS-DOS operating system ) and open source applications OpenOffice. org Writer, LibreOffice Writer, AbiWord, KWord, and LyX.

This protects critical Windows system files by preventing programs other than Microsoft's operating system update mechanisms such as the Package Installer, Windows Installer and other update components from modifying them.

These games, which are not developed by the industry giants, are often available in the form of downloadable content from services such as Microsoft's Xbox Live or Apple's App Store and usually cost much less than more major releases.

More visualizations such as " Trilogy II " and " Yule Log " can be downloaded from Microsoft's website.

Microsoft has received a great deal of bad press surrounding their Palladium software architecture, evoking comments such as " Few pieces of vaporware have evoked a higher level of fear and uncertainty than Microsoft's Palladium ", " Palladium is a plot to take over cyberspace ", and " Palladium will keep us from running any software not personally approved by Bill Gates ".

Microsoft's Windows NT system is a conceptual descendant of RSX-11M but is more directly descended from an object based operating system Cutler developed for a RISC processor ( PRISM ) which was never released.

Microsoft's version of Times New Roman licensed from Monotype matches the widths from the Adobe / Linotype version ( a PostScript core font by Linotype ).

An MSDN subscription also allows access to obsolete software from Microsoft's past.

In addition, up until 2002 it was available for download from Microsoft's web site as freeware (". exe " files for Microsoft Windows and in ". sit. hqx " archives for Mac OS X ) under a proprietary license imposing some restrictions on usage and distribution, allowing it to be used by end users in any system supporting installation of " exe " or ". sit. hqx " files and supporting TrueType fonts.

Microsoft's current Windows Mobile release is Windows Mobile 6. 1, and one of the major changes from Windows Mobile 6 is the introduction of instant messaging-like texting.

Microsoft's first operating system, MS-DOS, was originally called Quick and Dirty Operating System ( QDOS ), prior to its purchase from Seattle Computer Products.

As part of this agreement, the University of Waterloo was to receive $ 2. 3 million in funding from the Microsoft Canada Academic Innovation Alliance and would introduce Microsoft's C # programming language in its Electrical and Computer Engineering programs ( also known as ECE.

The MASM32 package is a mature project providing support for the Windows API under Microsoft's Macro Assembler by using custom made or converted headers and libraries from the Platform SDK.

The Samba Team is also implementing DCOM for over-the-wire interoperability purposes: unlike the Wine Team, they are not currently interested in binary-interoperability, as the Samba MSRPC implementation is far from binary-interoperable with Microsoft's MSRPC.

Microsoft's guidelines call for always using the term context menu, and explicitly deprecate shortcut menu.

Implementation using Intel's Threading Building Blocks ( TBB ) and Microsoft's Parallel Pattern Library ( PPL ) to run on multi-core processors is shown to perform well in practice.

He has also been a longtime advocate of using Mono-a free software implementation of Microsoft's. NET Framework-in GNOME.

The engine was completely redesigned using Microsoft's DirectX for Worms 2, dropping the darker tones of the first generation and adopting a more cartoonish look along the way-made possible by newer technology.

Prior to the release of Windows Mobile 2003, third-party software was developed using Microsoft's eMbedded Visual Tools, eMbedded Visual Basic ( eVB ) and eMbedded Visual C ( eVC ).

) The university came under harsh criticism for this agreement to develop Engineering courses using Microsoft's. NET Framework.

Microsoft's Windows NT's native file system, NTFS, supported long file names and did not divide the file name into a name and an extension, but again, the convention of using suffixes to simulate extensions continued, for compatibility with existing versions of Windows.

In its simplest form, video is streamed to the user using standard PC hardware, and requires Microsoft's Silverlight software to be installed.

Win32s-compatible applications could be built using Microsoft's development tools, as well as at least Borland C ++ 4. x.

Although the ASF container format can technically include any codec, Microsoft's encoding tools ( including Windows Media Encoder and Windows Movie Maker ) produce ASF / WMA / WMV files using the DirectX Media Objects ( DMO ) framework.

* Personal Geodatabase-Esri's closed, integrated vector data storage strategy using Microsoft's Access MDB format

After using the MIPS processor in the E-15 and the E-1xx series devices, the E-200 switched over to the StrongARM CPU, in keeping with Microsoft's specifications.

While some PL / M compilers were " native ", meaning that they ran on systems using that same microprocessor, e. g. for the Intel ISIS operating system, there were also " cross compilers " which ran on other operating environments such as Microsoft's DOS, and Digital Equipment Corporation's VAX / VMS.

Titles developed using XDK Extensions include winners of Microsoft's Dream-Build-Play competition among others.

WiX has proven to be so popular with Microsoft development teams that many of Microsoft's software products, such as SQL Server 2005, Office 2007, and Microsoft Codename Oslo are packaged using WiX.

* Microsoft Silverlight Microsoft's browser plugin that enables animation, vector graphics and high-definition video playback, programmed using XAML and. NET programming languages.

One application of " live analysis " is to recover RAM data ( for example, using Microsoft's COFEE tool, windd, WindowsSCOPE ) prior to removing an exhibit.

Whilst the APIs used to control and implement EFS are bespoke to Microsoft's Windows OSs ( and EFS is restricted to NTFS ) using iSCSI you can create a virtual NTFS volume on a networked drive ( e. g. an ext3 drive in a Linux device ).

In order to write applications using NDIS one can use samples that accompany Microsoft's Windows Driver Kit ( WDK ).

While the ultimate origins of using the three-character string < tt > cls </ tt > as the command to clear the screen likely predate Microsoft's use, this command was present before its MS-DOS usage, in the embedded ROM BASIC dialects Microsoft wrote for early 8-bit microcomputers ( such as TRS-80 Color BASIC ), where it served the same purpose.

The second one, called a Custom Interface, is using a function table which can be built in C but is also directly compatible with the binary layout of the virtual table of C ++ objects in Microsoft's C ++ compiler.