* wav – standard audio file container format used mainly in Windows PCs.

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

* Windows Display Driver Model ( WDDM ) – the graphic display driver architecture for Windows Vista

* Installable File System ( IFS ) – a filesystem API for IBM OS / 2 and Microsoft Windows NT

* 1951 – Bun E. Carlos, American drummer and archivist ( Cheap Trick and Tinted Windows )

* HeidiSQL – a full featured free front end that runs on Windows, and can connect to local or remote MySQL servers to manage databases, tables, column structure, and individual data records.

* Navicat – a series of proprietary graphical database management applications, developed for Windows, Macintosh and Linux.

* 1990 – Microsoft releases the Windows 3. 0 operating system.

The commissioners deadlocked with a 2 – 2 vote in 1993 and closed the investigation, but the Department of Justice opened its own investigation on August 21 of that year, resulting in a settlement on July 15, 1994 in which Microsoft consented not to tie other Microsoft products to the sale of Windows but remained free to integrate additional features into the operating system.

* 1985 – Microsoft Windows 1. 0 is released.

* Ncurses package for Windows – GnuWin32

* WGL – Microsoft Windows

* Interix – a full-featured POSIX and Unix environment subsystem for Microsoft's Windows NT-based operating systems

While works such as Susan Zuccotti's Under His Very Windows: The Vatican and the Holocaust in Italy ( 2000 ) and Michael Phayer's The Catholic Church and the Holocaust, 1930 – 1965 ( 2000 ) are critical of both Cornwell and Pius XII ; Ronald J. Rychlak's Hitler, the War and the Pope is critical as well but defends Pius XII in light of his access to most recent documents.

* Pie Menus for Windows, Dr. Dobb's Journal, Nov., 1992, pp 30 – 39, by Carl Rollo.

* Windows CE, Mobile – Qt for Windows CE and Windows Mobile

* 2000 – Microsoft releases Windows Me.

Parallels has become popular for its ability to run Windows as a guest under Mac OS X on the Apple – Intel architecture.

* Windows Media – A digital media platform encompassing individual Windows Media technologies

This allows KDE software based on Qt 4 to also be distributed to Microsoft Windows and.

About 125 Qt developers will be transferred to Digia, with the immediate goal of bringing Qt support to Android, iOS and Windows 8 platforms.

* Qt — An application framework and widget toolkit for Unix-like systems with X11, Microsoft Windows, Mac OS X, and other systems — available under both open source and proprietary licenses.

Commonly used GUIs are gMplayer and Gnome MPlayer written in GTK +, KMPlayer written in Qt, MPlayer OS X Extended and MPlayerX for Mac OS X and MPUI-hcb for Windows.

A Qt ( toolkit ) | Qt program using three different skins: Plastik, Keramik, and Windows

A number of frameworks can build cross-platform applications for Linux, Macintosh, and Windows from the same source code, such as Qt, the widget toolkits wxWidgets, FOX toolkit, or Eclipse RCP.

Later versions incorporated Borland CLX, a cross-platform development visual component library based on Qt, that supports Windows and Linux, however CLX is now abandoned.

It is based on the free Qt toolkit, therefore native versions are available for Linux, Unix-like operating systems, Mac OS X, Microsoft Windows, OS / 2 and eComStation.

In January, 2011, a major release version 9. 0 features QtSpim that has a new user interface built on the cross-platform Qt UI framework and runs on Windows, Linux, and Mac OS X.

The default GUI is based on Qt 4 for Windows and Linux, Cocoa for Mac OS X, and Be API on BeOS ; but all give a similar standard interface.

Porten took part in the development of Qt a GUI toolkit used by Windows, Mac OS X, and X11 developers.

As such, VCL is tightly bound to Windows, and Kylix's CLX is built on top of Trolltech's Qt library.

However, Qt is a portable library and, starting with Delphi 6, Borland provided CLX on Windows as well, providing a measure of back-portability.

It runs on Unix-based platforms, it also compiles and runs on Mac OS X and should run on anything that Qt supports, it was also ported to Microsoft Windows.

KDE on Cygwin is the port of the Qt toolkit and the KDE desktop environment ( both of which are commonly found in Linux ) to the Windows Operating System by using Cygwin, a POSIX emulation layer.

KDE on Cygwin helps Windows computers to run applications originally created for Qt and KDE, by providing the applications with the necessary dependencies in a transparent manner.

The Rockbox Utility is a free computer application, available for Linux, Mac OS X, and Microsoft Windows, built using Nokia Qt platform, that is used to install and manage Rockbox on DAPs.

Based on the Qt produced by Trolltech, Album Shaper runs on Microsoft Windows, Mac OS X, Linux, FreeBSD, and other X11 based systems.

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

Also, a new version of Asteroids was developed for PlayStation, Nintendo 64, Windows, and the Game Boy Color in the late 1990s.

Three emulators of the machine exist, ElectrEm for Windows / Linux / Mac OS X, Elkulator for Windows / DOS and the Multi-system emulator MESS.

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.

The release marked the 27th major release for the AutoCAD for Windows, and the third consecutive year for AutoCAD for Mac.

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.

An AD domain controller authenticates and authorizes all users and computers in a Windows domain type network — assigning and enforcing security policies for all computers and installing or updating software.

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.

For those more nostalgic for the true BBS experience, one can use NetSerial ( Windows ) or DOSBox ( Windows /* nix ) to redirect DOS COM port software to telnet, allowing them to connect to Telnet BBSes using 1980s and 1990s era modem terminal emulation software, like Telix, Terminate, Qmodem and Procomm Plus.

* Boot Configuration Data, a computing term for the boot loader of Windows Vista

Ashton-Tate's product portfolio proved to be weak, with no provision for evolution into the GUI environment of Windows.

By the time dBASE for Windows eventually shipped, the developer community had moved on to other products such as Clipper or FoxBase and dBASE never regained significant share of Ashton-Tate's former market.

The eventual joint company effort, named Borland Office for Windows ( a combination of the WordPerfect word processor, Quattro Pro spreadsheet and Paradox database ) was introduced at the 1993 Comdex computer show.

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 ×).