For instance, an email sent from a Microsoft Outlook should be readable from Yahoo!

For instance, design and creation of Microsoft Word software will take much more time than designing and developing Microsoft Notepad because of the difference in functionalities in each one.

For instance, JavaBeans library is used for designing enterprise applications, Windows Forms library is used for designing graphical user interface ( GUI ) applications like Microsoft Word, and Windows Communication Foundation is used for designing web services.

For instance, if a user is designing a Microsoft Windows desktop application, he / she might use the. NET Windows Forms library to design the desktop application and call its APIs like Form1. Close () and Form1. Show () to close or open the application and write the additional operations him / herself that it need to have.

For instance, Microsoft Word files are normally created and modified by the Microsoft Word program in response to user commands, but the user can also move, rename, or delete these files directly by using a file manager program such as Windows Explorer ( on Windows computers ) or by command lines ( CLI ).

For example, text in Microsoft Word will be rendered on the screen with ClearType enhancement, but text placed in a bitmapped image in a program such as Adobe Photoshop will not be modified.

For example, Microsoft's Outlook client uses a proprietary protocol to communicate with a Microsoft Exchange Server server as does IBM's Notes client when communicating with a Domino server, but all of these products also support POP, IMAP, and outgoing SMTP.

For example, Microsoft changed its Office applications from SDI to MDI mode and then back to SDI, although the degree of implementation varies from one component to another.

For advocating Microsoft technologies, de Icaza was criticized by Richard Stallman on the Software Freedom Day 2009 as " Traitor to the Free Software Community ".

* John Lopatka and William Page, The Dubious Search For Integration in the Microsoft Trial, 31 Conn. L. Rev.

For example, the RIM BlackBerry comes with RIM's Desktop Manager program, which can synchronize to both Microsoft Outlook and ACT !.

For example, some early Palm OS PDAs came only with Palm Desktop, while later Palm PDAs — such as the Treo 650 — have the ability to sync to Palm Desktop or Microsoft Outlook.

For modern computers, all versions of Microsoft Windows after Windows 95

For receiving messages, client applications usually use either the Post Office Protocol ( POP ) or the Internet Message Access Protocol ( IMAP ) or a proprietary system ( such as Microsoft Exchange or Lotus Notes / Domino ) to access their mail box accounts on a mail server.

For Windows system administrators, Microsoft suggests that they migrate to Windows PowerShell.

For example, the Microsoft Pascal system consisted of two compiler passes and a final linking pass ( which could take minutes on systems with only floppy disks for secondary storage ).

For Microsoft Windows systems, the average selling price ( ASP ) showed a decline in 2008 / 2009, possibly due to low-cost Netbooks, drawing $ 569 at U. S. retail in August 2008.

For example, one could install Linux, BSD, Mac OS X, Microsoft Windows or other operating systems on different partitions of the same hard disk and have a choice of booting into any compatible operating system at power-up.

For example, various Microsoft Windows versions, including Windows Server 2003 and Windows XP, have been certified at EAL4 +, but regular security patches for security vulnerabilities are still published by Microsoft for these Windows systems.

For example, all versions of Microsoft Windows operating system shows a file of 2 < sup > 20 </ sup > bytes as " 1. 00 MB " in its file properties dialog, while showing a file of 10 < sup > 6 </ sup > () bytes as 976 kB.

For software that requires a product key, a Microsoft website generates these on demand.

For example, when a user logs into a computer that is part of a Windows domain, Active Directory checks the submitted password and determines whether the user is a system administrator or normal user.

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.

For example, the bytes of a plain text file (< tt >. txt </ tt > in Windows ) are associated with either ASCII or UTF-8 characters, while the bytes of image, video, and audio files are interpreted otherwise.

For instance, on newer MS Windows computers, the older FAT-type file systems of MS-DOS and old versions of Windows are supported, in addition to the NTFS file system that is the normal file system for recent versions of Windows.

For example, Windows XP does this when sorting file names.

For the first three months after announcement the Deskpro 386 shipped with Windows / 386.

For example, EDLIN in early MS-DOS versions and 32-bit versions of Windows NT has a somewhat similar syntax, and text editors in many MUDs ( LPMud and descendants, for example ) use ed-like syntax.

For Windows and Macintosh.

* Might and Magic VII: For Blood and Honor ( 1999 ; Windows )

For example, the comp. os. ms-windows Usenet hierarchy has a group reserved solely for advocacy — the Guide to the Windows newsgroups exhorts Usenet posters not to " get involved in arguments about Windows vs. OS / 2 vs. Macintosh vs. NeXTSTEP except in the comp. os. ms-windows. advocacy group.

* For the families of the 79 employees of the Windows of the World Restaurant: Windows of Hope Family Relief Fund, c / o David Berdon & Company, 415 Madison Avenue, New York, NY 10017.

* Bogart, Leo, Premises For Propaganda: The United States Information Agency's Operating Assumptions in the Cold War, ISBN 0-02-904390-5

For instance, F. Anthony Comper as the top deputy to Barrett was President and Chief Operating Officer from 1990 to 1999, until he became Chairman and CEO while retaining his title of President.

For instance, at CIBC and Bank of Montreal, the position of Chief Operating Officer ( COO ) was created specifically for Gerald T. McCaughey and Bill Downe, respectively.

For some years, it was reported by former Scientologists that the material was still being used, but not divulged until one reaches the third Operating Thetan level ( or OT III ).

Operating under the motto, “ Built For Business ”, the first U. S. squadron to arrive at NAS Brunswick was a heavier-than-air Scouting Squadron ( VS1D1 ).

* For Disk Operating Systems that did not use the index hole in the disk to mark the beginnings of tracks, the " flippy " modification required only a new write-enable notch to be cut.

For instance, if a company has sales of 1, 000, 000 units, at price $ 50, unit variable cost of $ 10, and fixed costs of $ 10, 000, 000, then its unit contribution is $ 40, its Total Contribution is $ 40m, and its Operating Income is $ 30m, so its DOL is

* Unicode Font Guide For Free / Libre Open Source Operating Systems, a huge index of high quality free fonts

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