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Windows and XP
** 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.
* Enabling International Support in Windows XP / Server 2003 Family, a Microsoft tutorial on how to install input methods on Windows XP.
Context menus in Windows XP are customizable by third-party software.
For example, Windows XP does this when sorting file names.
ClearType was later introduced as an operating system feature in Windows XP, where it was kept turned off by default.
ClearType in Windows XP currently supports the RGB and BGR sub pixel structures.
The best option for users of Windows XP having rotated LCD displays ( Tablet PCs or swivel-stand LCD displays ) is using regular anti-aliasing, or switching off font-smoothing altogether.
Duke Nukem 3D has been ported to run on modern Microsoft Windows variants including Windows XP and Windows 7.
FCPLib supports Windows NT / 2K / XP, Debian, BSD, Solaris, and Mac OS X.
In hindsight, Cairo was a much more difficult project than Microsoft had anticipated and, as a result, NT and Chicago would not be unified until Windows XP — albeit Windows 2000, oriented to business, had already unified most of the system ’ s bolts and gears, it was XP that was sold to home consumers like Windows 95 and came to be viewed as the final unified OS.

Windows and Fundamentals
In July 2006, Microsoft released a thin-client version of Windows XP Service Pack 2, called Windows Fundamentals for Legacy PCs ( WinFLP ).
** Microsoft TechNet: Windows Internet Name Service Overview ( Chapter 12 of the downloadable book " TCP / IP Fundamentals for Microsoft Windows ")
The Terminal Services server is supported as an official feature on Windows NT 4. 0 Terminal Server Edition, Windows 2000 Server, all editions of Windows XP except Windows XP Home Edition, Windows Server 2003, Windows Home Server, on Windows Fundamentals for Legacy PCs, in Windows Vista Ultimate, Enterprise and Business editions, Windows Server 2008 and Windows Server 2008 R2 and on Windows 7 Professional and above.
* Windows Fundamentals for Legacy PCs, an operating system from Microsoft ( Eiger was one of the codenames )
* Windows Fundamentals for Legacy PCs
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Windows Fundamentals for Legacy PCs (" WinFLP ") is a thin client operating system from Microsoft, based on Windows XP Embedded, but optimized for older, less powerful hardware.
Windows Fundamentals for Legacy PCs is not marketed as a full-fledged general purpose operating system, although it is functionally able to perform most of the tasks generally associated with one.
The RTM version of Windows Fundamentals for Legacy PCs was released on 8 July 2006.
Windows Fundamentals for Legacy PCs is a Windows XP Embedded derivative and, as such, is optimized for legacy PCs.

Windows and for
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 ×).

Windows and Legacy
* WordStar for Windows was also released under the name WordStar Personal Writer, and is a development of WordStar Legacy itself developed from a program called Legacy.
* 1999: Legacy of Kain: Soul Reaver — Crystal Dynamics, PlayStation / Dreamcast / Windows
* 2003: Legacy of Kain: Defiance — Crystal Dynamics, Windows / PlayStation 2 / Xbox
Doom Legacy is a source port originally written as a fork of DOSDoom, introducing mouse-look, jumping, a console, 32-player deathmatch, skins, and, later, native Windows, Linux and Mac OS X ports.
Legacy Windows controllers, joysticks and generalized force-feedback devices are not supported.
In 1999, Red Orb Entertainment collected the Windows versions of The Journeyman Project Turbo !, Buried in Time, and Legacy of Time into a 8-disc trilogy box set.
To date five games comprise the Legacy of Kain series, each one developed for video game consoles and later ported to Microsoft Windows.
* Blood Omen: Legacy of Kain ( 1996 ) ( PlayStation, Windows )

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