Starting with the version shipped with Mac OS X v10. 6, Mail has Microsoft Exchange Server 2007 support using Exchange Web Services.

Starting with version 11. 5, released in 1996, Sybase moved to differentiate its product from Microsoft SQL Server by renaming it to Adaptive Server Enterprise.

Starting with Windows Vista and Windows Server 2008, Microsoft disabled the LM hash by default ; the feature can be enabled for local accounts via a security policy setting, and for Active Directory accounts by applying the same setting via domain Group Policy.

Starting in Windows Vista, the default interface typefaces in all regions were changed to sans-serif styles, using Microsoft JhengHei in Traditional Chinese environments and Microsoft YaHei in Simplified Chinese environments.

Starting in 2006 Microsoft has used a Vitality Curve despite intense internal criticism.

Starting in 2004, Microsoft PlaysForSure was a certification given by Microsoft to portable devices and content services that had been tested against several hundred compatibility and performance requirements.

Starting with Windows Media Center TV Pack 2008 and moving forward, Microsoft has indicated that DVR-MS is being replaced with the WTV format.

Starting with Windows 2000, Microsoft began making 64-bit versions of Windows available — before this, these operating systems only existed in 32-bit versions.

Starting from version 6. 0 of MS-DOS, Microsoft even included a program called Memmaker which was used to automatically optimize conventional memory by moving TSR programs to the upper memory.

Starting with Windows 98, Microsoft included a " Windows Update " system that would check for patches to Windows and its components, which Microsoft would release intermittently.

Starting on 2007-09-11, Microsoft forces most current users of MSN Messenger to upgrade to Windows Live Messenger 8. 1 due to security considerations.

Starting at September 2010, John began working at Microsoft officially.

Starting with IE 5. 5 in 2000, Microsoft has enabled the writing mode property as a " Microsoft extension to Cascading Style Sheets ( CSS )".

Starting with Windows Vista, Microsoft withdrew the support for this format from this application and left the job of displaying them to Internet Explorer.

Starting with Windows Vista, Microsoft replaced VLKs with Multiple Activation Keys ( MAK ) or with Key Management Server ( KMS ) keys.

1993 saw a release for PCs with Windows 3. 1 as part of the original Microsoft Arcade package.

Applesoft BASIC was a dialect of Microsoft BASIC supplied with the Apple II series of computers.

As Steve Wozniak, the creator of Integer BASIC and the only person who understood it well enough to add floating point features, was busy with the Disk II drive and controller and with Apple DOS, Apple turned to Microsoft, who was the BASIC vendor of choice after their success with Altair BASIC, and licensed a 10 KB assembly language version of BASIC dubbed " Applesoft.

Applesoft was similar to ( and indeed had a common code base with ) Microsoft BASIC implementations on other 6502-based computers, such as Commodore BASIC: it used line numbers, and spaces were not necessary in lines.

* Despite its heritage, Applesoft lacked commands common to most other Microsoft BASIC interpreters, such as INSTR ( which searched for a substring in a given string ; this had to be done manually with loops and the MID $ function ), PRINT USING ( which formatted numbers with commas and currency signs according to a format string ), and INKEY $ ( which checked for a keypress without stopping the program as Applesoft's GET command — analogous to the INPUT $ function — did, although a PEEK location did provide this functionality ).

Advanced power management ( APM ) is an API developed by Intel and Microsoft and released in 1992 which enables an operating system running an IBM-compatible personal computer to work with the BIOS ( part of the computer's firmware ) to achieve power management.

Competition with Microsoft was fierce.

* Microsoft Windows contains application compatibility shims to make the platform compatible with most software from earlier 32-bit and 16-bit versions ( e. g. Civilization ( circa 1991, designed for Windows 3. 0 ) running on Windows Vista ).

* Microsoft Word 2000 was backward compatible with Word 97 because it could read and write files in Word 97 format, with the understanding that features unique to Word 2000 would not appear in Word 97.

At the same time, Microsoft Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Access and OneNote, both 2007 and 2010, are also backward compatible with their 97-2003 file formats and features in the same manner.

** With the introduction of Windows 7 ( Business, Ultimate, or Enterprise editions ), Windows XP Mode enables full compatibility with older programs supported under Windows XP via Microsoft Virtual PC.

It has been ported to Microsoft Windows and distributed with Cygwin and MinGW, to DOS by the DJGPP project, to Novell NetWare and to Android via various terminal emulation applications.

BeOS PE could be started from within Microsoft Windows or Linux, and was intended to nurture consumer interest in its product and give developers something to tinker with.

In 2002, Be Inc. sued Microsoft claiming that Hitachi had been dissuaded from selling PCs loaded with BeOS, and that Compaq had been pressured not to market an Internet appliance in partnership with Be.

All major software companies, such as Microsoft, Novell and Sun Microsystems, have their own software testing departments with the specific goal of just testing.

* NJStar Software Corp. ( 南极星 Nanjixing ): Chinese, Japanese, and Korean language software solutions for use with Microsoft Windows operating systems.

The theory of electronic colonialism extends the issue to global cultural issues and the impact of major multi-media conglomerates, ranging from Viacom, Time-Warner, Disney, News Corp, Sony, to Google and Microsoft with the focus on the hegemonic power of these mainly United States-based communication giants.

MinGW is a native software port of the GNU Compiler Collection ( GCC ) to Microsoft Windows, along with a set of freely distributable import libraries and header files for the Windows API.

Microsoft Windows supports multiple file systems, each with different policies regarding case-sensitivity.

The implementations differ: Microsoft Word was one of the first applications to only show sub-entries of some menu entries after clicking an arrow icon on the context menu, otherwise executing an action associated with the parent entry.

Examples of applications often classified as applets are all of the accessories bundled in Microsoft Windows ( such as Windows Notepad or Microsoft Paint ).

Tridgell was a major developer of the Samba software, analysing the Server Message Block protocol used for workgroup and network file sharing by Microsoft Windows products.

* wma – the popular Windows Media Audio format owned by Microsoft.

* Active Directory, a component of Microsoft Windows that provides distributed user management and authentication

Microsoft first introduced AGP support into Windows 95 OEM Service Release 2 ( OSR2 version 1111 or 950B ) via the USB SUPPLEMENT to OSR2 patch.

One such program is ProSystem, written in C / C ++ for the Microsoft Windows operating system.

Active Directory ( AD ) is a directory service created by Microsoft for Windows domain networks.

Stand-alone official AIM client software includes advertisements and is available for Microsoft Windows, Windows Mobile, Mac OS, Mac OS X, Android, iOS, BlackBerry OS.

A legal, out-of-the-box installer has been created for Microsoft Windows using WinUAE.

Microsoft dropped support for APM in Windows Vista.

Operating systems such as Microsoft Windows that display hard drive sizes using the customary binary prefix " GB " ( as it is used for RAM ) would display this as 279. 4 GB ( meaning 279. 4 × 1024 < sup > 3 </ sup >, or 279. 4 ×).

* Browser service, a feature of Microsoft Windows to let users browse and locate shared resources in neighboring computers

EFI booting has been supported in only Microsoft Windows versions supporting GPT, the Linux kernel 2. 6. 1 and later, and Mac OS X on Intel-based Macs.