* 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 ).

Some apps such as Microsoft Office are available in versions for several different platforms ; others have narrower requirements and are thus called, for example, a Geography application for Windows or an Android application for education or Linux gaming.

; Allegro Common Lisp: for Microsoft Windows, FreeBSD, Linux, Apple Mac OS X and various UNIX variants.

; Corman Common Lisp: for Microsoft Windows.

; LispWorks: for Microsoft Windows, FreeBSD, Linux, Apple Mac OS X and various UNIX variants.

; CLISP: A bytecode-compiling implementation, portable and runs on a number of Unix and Unix-like systems ( including Mac OS X ), as well as Microsoft Windows and several other systems.

An extension of < tt >. txt </ tt > identifies a text file ; a < tt >. doc </ tt > extension identifies any type of document or documentation, commonly in the Microsoft Word file format ; and so on.

* Calypso, an email client for Microsoft Windows ; later called Courier

* Commodore BASIC-BASIC interpreter for the 8-bit range, ROM resident ; based on Microsoft BASIC

Crimson Skies was originally developed by Zipper Interactive under the FASA Interactive brand in late 2000 and used under license by FASA ; FASA Interactive had been purchased by Microsoft, so rights to Crimson Skies stayed with Microsoft.

* Wallace, James ; Jim Erickson ( 1993 ), Hard Drive: Bill Gates and the Making of the Microsoft Empire, ISBN 0-88730-629-2.

The first version of Microsoft Windows included a simple graphics painting program called Windows Paint ; Windows Write, a simple word processor ; an appointment " calendar "; a " cardfiler "; a " notepad "; a " clock "; a " control panel "; a " computer terminal "; " Clipboard "; and RAM driver.

As part of the related business negotiations, Microsoft had licensed certain aspects of the Macintosh user interface from Apple ; in later litigation, a district court summarized these aspects as " screen displays ".

Microsoft did not change all of the Windows code to 32-bit ; parts of it remained 16-bit ( albeit not directly using real mode ) for reasons of compatibility, performance, and development time.

Microsoft had a double gain from its release: first, it made it impossible for consumers to run Windows 95 on a cheaper, non-Microsoft DOS ; secondly, although traces of DOS were never completely removed from the system and MS DOS 7 would be loaded briefly as a part of the booting process, Windows 95 applications ran solely in 386 enhanced mode, with a flat 32-bit address space and virtual memory.

Some IDEs contain compiler, interpreter, or both, such as Microsoft Visual Studio and Eclipse ; others do not, such as SharpDevelop and Lazarus.

Both Red Hat and Microsoft announced plans to drop Itanium support in their operating systems due to lack of market interest ; although, other Linux distributions such as Debian remain available for Itanium.

* MKS Inc .′ s MKS Korn shell — a proprietary implementation of the KornShell language from Microsoft Windows Services for UNIX ( SFU ) up to version 2. 0 ; according to David Korn, the MKS Korn shell was not fully compatible with KornShell in 1998 ; in SFU version 3. 0 Microsoft replaced the MKS Korn shell with a new POSIX. 2-compliant shell as part of Interix ;

With the case in front of a new judge, Microsoft and the government settled, with the government dropping the case in return for Microsoft agreeing to cease many of the practices the government challenged.

This case was settled when Microsoft and Ticketmaster arranged a licensing agreement.

The case with Microsoft over patent 5, 838, 906 was settled in 2007 for a confidential amount of money after an initial $ 565 million judgment was stayed on appeal, but the University of California, disclosed its piece of the final settlement as $ 30. 4 million.

In 1997, three years after the lawsuit was decided, all lingering infringement questions against Microsoft regarding the Lisa and Macintosh GUI as well as Apple's " QuickTime piracy " lawsuit against Microsoft were settled in direct negotiations.

On May 25, 2004, three months after the game was cancelled, Mythic Entertainment announced that the case was settled and that Microsoft agreed to not use the Mythica name on new online computer games and to not register it as a trademark.

Microsoft later collaborated with BindView to issue a fix for the problem ( dubbed the ' Syskey Bug ') which appears to have been settled and Syskey has been pronounced secure enough to resist brute force attack.

In 1997, Spyglass threatened Microsoft with a contractual audit, in response to which Microsoft settled for US $ 8 million.

In 2001, the Bush Administration's DOJ settled with Microsoft in an agreement criticized by many states and other industry experts as insufficient.

By the end of 1994, Microsoft and Stac settled all pending litigation by agreeing that Microsoft would make a $ 39. 9 million investment in Stac Electronics, and additionally pay Stac about $ 43 million in royalties on their patents.

This lawsuit was ultimately settled in 1997, when Apple agreed to make Internet Explorer the default browser over Netscape, and Microsoft agreed to continue developing Office and other software for the Mac for the next 5 years, and purchase $ 150 million of non-voting Apple stock.

On May 25, 2004, three months after the game was cancelled, Mythic announced that the case was settled and that Microsoft agreed to not use the Mythica name on new online video games and to not register it as a trademark.

In 1997, Spyglass threatened Microsoft with a contractual audit, in response to which Microsoft settled for $ 8 million U. S. Version 3 included Internet Mail and News 1. 0 and the Windows Address Book.

On January 24, 2001, this and all other outstanding Sun-Microsoft lawsuits were settled as part of a wide-ranging agreement between Sun and Microsoft.

Before a final ruling could be issued, Microsoft settled the case for US $ 97 million.

Although a costly settlement to Microsoft, this eliminated the most damning evidence of Microsoft's anti-trust behaviors, and allowed Microsoft to control and dominate this sector of the marketplace without concerns about any further serious competitor.

Steven McGeady ( later an Intel Vice-President and witness in the Microsoft anti-trust case ) wrote an innovative development environment that allowed software to be written for the array before it was completed.

For a long time their market share has been small enough that their anti-trust exposure has been substantially less than that of Microsoft or IBM.

* April 3, 2000: United States v. Microsoft: Federal court held Microsoft liable for anti-trust violations

* " EU hits Microsoft with record 899 million euro anti-trust fine ".

The details of IAL's conflicts with Microsoft over software were revealed in Steven McGeady's testimony in the Microsoft anti-trust trial.

In May 1998, Blumenthal, along with attorneys general from 19 other states and the District of Columbia, filed an anti-trust lawsuit against Microsoft accusing the company of abusing its monopoly power to stifle competition.

Professor Schmalensee is an expert on regulation and antitrust policy, and is known for serving on the President's Council of Economic Advisors as well as his testimony in the Microsoft anti-trust trial, in which he testified as an expert witness in favor of Microsoft.

To support his thesis, Rifkin notes that in addition to the EU having more people and a greater Gross Domestic Product than the U. S., the potential of the EU as an economic superpower is shown by having: 14 / 20 of the top banks in the world, 61 of the 140 of the top companies of the world as measure by the Global Fortune 500 ( the U. S. has 50 ), a homicide rate that is 1 / 4 than in the U. S., the 18 most developed countries in Europe all have more broadly distributed wealth than the U. S. ( the U. S. ranks 24th in the world ), higher lifespan than the U. S., higher literacy rates than the U. S., and higher quality of life than the U. S. Also, Europeans provide 47 % of all the humanitarian aid in the world, and are seen by Rifkin as being more effective in global economic market regulation, evidenced by the fact that the EU stopped the merger of General Electric and Honeywell, fined Microsoft for anti-trust, and blocked genetically modified food despite U. S. opposition.