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

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

* 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 ).

** 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.

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.

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.

* 2000 – United States v. Microsoft: Microsoft is ruled to have violated United States antitrust laws by keeping " an oppressive thumb " on its competitors.

* 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.

* IME Tutorial, tutorial on how to use Microsoft Global IME for pre-Windows 2000 systems.

In August 2000, Microsoft, Hewlett-Packard, Intel, and others worked to standardize CLI.

The technology was first introduced in software in January 2000 as an always-on feature of Microsoft Reader, which was released to the public in August 2000.

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.

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.

Microsoft released Windows 2000 in February 2000.

In September 2000, Microsoft introduced Windows Me ( Millennium Edition ), which upgraded Windows 98 with enhanced multimedia and Internet features from Windows 2000.

On 25 April 2003 Microsoft launched Windows Server 2003, a notable update to Windows 2000 Server encompassing many new security features, a new " Manage Your Server " wizard that simplifies configuring a machine for specific roles, and improved performance.

*" Janus " was a codename used for Microsoft Windows 3. 1x and Windows 2000 ( DEC Alpha and Itanium 64-bit editions )

* Microsoft POSIX subsystem, an optional Windows subsystem included in Windows NT-based operating systems up to Windows 2000.

Allen officially resigned from his position on the Microsoft board in November 2000 but was asked to consult as a senior strategy advisor to the company's executives.

* 2000 – Microsoft releases Windows Me.

In Microsoft Windows 2000 and later, a registry setting can be changed to enable a debugging feature that allows the user to manually crash the system, generating a memory dump for analysis.

Steven Anthony " Steve " Ballmer ( born March 24, 1956 ) is an American businessman who currently serves as the CEO of Microsoft, having held that post since January 2000., his personal wealth is estimated at $ 15. 7 billion, ranking number 19 on the Forbes 400.

Windows 2000 was an operating system produced by Microsoft for use on personal computers, business desktops, laptops, and servers.

Additionally, Microsoft sold Windows 2000 Advanced Server Limited Edition and Windows 2000 Datacenter Server Limited Edition, which ran on 64-bit Intel Itanium microprocessors and they were released in 2001.

Some systems ( particularly newer Macintoshes and new editions of Microsoft Windows ) use Intel's EFI.

Microsoft continued to produce newer versions of the flight simulation software, adding features such as new aircraft types and augmented scenery.

Windows NT and newer operating systems from Microsoft included a system notification service called Messenger service, which was intended for use within workgroups, but eventually became used maliciously to present pop-up advertisements to users.

It has been superseded by Microsoft's similarly named but separate and newer client, Windows Live Messenger, for connections to the. NET Messenger Service, and by Microsoft Lync ( formerly Microsoft Office Communicator ) in corporate environments.

In Microsoft Windows 2000, Windows XP Professional, and Windows Server 2003, administrator accounts can be insulated from more of the these pitfalls by changing the account from the administrator group to the power user group in the user account properties but this solution is not as effective as using newer Windows systems with UAC.

The older and now the less used one is accessed by SoulSeek client 156 ; the newer network and one with greatest usage is accessed by SoulSeek client 157 ( Windows only ) or SoulSeekQT ( Microsoft Windows, Mac OS, or Linux platforms ).

When a document is created in Microsoft Word 2007 and opened in an earlier version ( like Microsoft Word 2003 ), Microsoft Word 2003 tells the user it can download a converter to read files in the newer Microsoft Word 2007 format.

An open source internet community has released OWLNext, a series of improvements and patches to the original OWL which also allows newer compilers ( Borland C ++ Builder 5 – 6, GCC, Microsoft Visual C ++ 6, 2003 – 2010, BDS C ++ 2006, CodeGear C ++ 2007 – 2010 ).

the newer version of this game, Revised by Microsoft Middle East

Both titles runs on both Microsoft Windows ( Windows 95 or NT4 or newer ) and Apple Macintosh ( Os 8 up to OS 9. 2. 2, and in classic mode from PowerPC Mac OS X up until Mac OS X Leopard ) computers.

Microsoft provides the client required for connecting to newer RDP versions for downlevel operating systems.

These " Works Suite " versions also bundled a copy of Microsoft Word, although there was never a newer version bundled than Word 2002.

Microsoft Office Excel can import newer Works Spreadsheets because the newer Works Spreadsheet also uses the Excel format but with a different extension (*. xlr ).

There is an import filter for older Works 2. 0 spreadsheet format (*. wks ); however it may be disabled in the registry by newer Microsoft Office Service packs.

Many legacy third party CIFS implementations have taken considerable time to add support for the stronger protocols that Microsoft has created to replace LM hashing because the open source communities supporting these libraries first had to reverse engineer the newer protocols — Samba took 5 years to add NTLMv2 support, while JCIFS took 10 years.

Microsoft doesn't recommend using DirectInput for keyboards or mice, and has started pushing the newer XInput for Xbox 360 controllers.

It can open Microsoft Word ( versions 6. 0-2003 ) files, although it opens newer versions of the. DOC format with incorrect formatting.

For viewing older ( 97-2003 ) as well as newer ( Office Open XML ) documents, Microsoft recommends Word Viewer, which is available for free.

Traditionally, Treos run Palm OS which allows synchronization with both Mac OS X and Microsoft Windows, but newer models also have editions that run Windows Mobile.