* 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.

At the same time, Microsoft Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Access and OneNote, both 2007 and 2010, are also backward compatible with their 97-2003 file formats and features in the same manner.

( Microsoft Word document ).

The types of software include web pages developed in languages and frameworks like HTML, PHP, Perl, JSP, ASP. NET, XML, and desktop applications like OpenOffice. org, Microsoft Word developed in languages like C, C ++, Objective-C, Java, C #, or Smalltalk.

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.

* The Science of Word Recognition, by Kevin Larson, Advanced Reading Technology, Microsoft Corporation

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 ).

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.

The implementations differ: Microsoft Word was one of the first applications to only show sub-entries of some menu entries after clicking an arrow icon on the context menu, otherwise executing an action associated with the parent entry.

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.

There are many products that can qualify as a file viewer: Microsoft Word viewer or Microsoft PowerPoint viewer, and the OpenOffice equivalents are examples.

* Microsoft Word Viewer

Furiganized results can be printed or exported to Microsoft Word.

The last version of MultiMate was packaged with many of these add-on programs under the product name " MultiMate Advantage " to compete with other word processor software of the day, especially IBM DisplayWrite for DOS, which Multimate International developers saw as their main competition in the business market, and to a lesser extent WordPerfect, the DOS incarnation of Microsoft Word and the Samna word processor, which had its roots in another office word processing computer.

In particular, since Microsoft Word is available on Macintosh computers, word macro viruses can attack these as well as Windows platforms.

In Microsoft Office 2007 and later versions, Internet Explorer 7 and later versions and Windows Live Messenger, ClearType is also turned on by default, even if it is not enabled throughout the operating system.

Both occupied the same price range, with the 2007 Encyclopædia Britannica Ultimate CD or DVD costing US $ 50 and the Microsoft Encarta Premium 2007 DVD costing US $ 45.

Microsoft officially closed the FASA team in the company's gaming division on September 12, 2007.

On December 6, 2007, FASA founder Jordan Weisman announced that his new venture, Smith & Tinker, had licensed the electronic gaming rights to MechWarrior, Shadowrun, and Crimson Skies from Microsoft.

In August 2007, Microsoft issued its Game Content Usage Rules, a license intended to address the legal status of machinima based on its games, including the Halo series.

In September 2007, Microsoft closed FASA Studios and licensed the Shadowrun electronic entertainment rights to Smith & Tinker, a company owned by Jordan Weisman, one of the original creators of Shadowrun.

This version includes improved support for PDF, Microsoft Office 2007, OpenDocument, and Office Open XML.

Worms was released on March 7, 2007 at a cost of 800 Microsoft points ($ 10 USD /£ 7 ) but is now 400 points to purchase.

* Microsoft Office 2007, abbreviated O07, but sometimes mistaken as 007

In a 2008 article in InfoWorld, Randall C. Kennedy, formerly of Intel, introduces this term using successive versions of Microsoft Office between the year 2000 and 2007 as his premise.

Microsoft OneNote and Microsoft Outlook 2007 use Triple DES to password protect user content.

More recent surveys have suggested a decline, with 29. 4 % of mail servers in August 2007 detected as running Sendmail in a study performed by E-Soft, Inc. Sendmail is trailed by Microsoft Exchange Server, Exim, and Postfix ; these four being the only mail servers with more than 10 % of the total.

The contemporary typefaces used by computers, from simple word processing programs like Microsoft Word or Apple Pages to professional designers ' software packages like Adobe InDesign, owe a considerable debt to the past and to a small number of professional typeface designers today ( Zapf 2007 ; Mediavilla 2006 ; Henning 2002 ).

StarOffice 9, released in November 2008, added support for version 1. 2 of the OpenDocument standard and Microsoft Office 2007 files and a number of other improvements.

* Opens Microsoft Office 2007 documents ( Word 2007, Excel 2007, PowerPoint 2007 with WordPerfect X4, Quattro Pro X4, and Presentations X4 respectively.

In 2007, with the advent of Windows Mobile 6, Microsoft dropped the name Pocket PC in favor of a new naming scheme.

Microsoft's Windows Mobile 6, internally code-named ' Crossbow ', was officially released by Microsoft on February 12, 2007.

FrameMaker 10 ( 2011 ) again refined the user interface and introduced several changes, including: integration with content management systems via EMC Documentum 6. 5 with Service Pack 1 and Microsoft SharePoint Server 2007 with Service Pack 2.

In April 2007, it was rumoured that Paul Allen, the American entrepreneur who formed Microsoft with Bill Gates, might launch a takeover bid for the club.

Its first product was Turbo Pascal in 1983, developed by Anders Hejlsberg ( who later developed. NET and C # for Microsoft ) and before Borland acquired the product sold in Scandinavia under the name of Compas Pascal.

Adam Bosworth initiated and headed up the Quattro project until moving to Microsoft later in 1990 to take over the project which eventually became Access.

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.

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

The original was 86-DOS, which would later become Microsoft MS-DOS.

When Microsoft later set out to develop a gaming console, the X was used as the basis of the name Xbox to indicate that the console was based on DirectX technology.

Netscape's competitor, Microsoft, released Internet Explorer 3. 0 later the same year with a port of JavaScript called JScript.

Edlin is a line editor included with MS-DOS and later Microsoft operating systems.

In later years, he had occasional private expressions of bitterness over being upstaged by Microsoft.

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 ".

In an attempt to resolve this tension, IBM and Microsoft agreed that IBM would develop OS / 2 2. 0, to replace OS / 2 1. 3 and Windows 3. 0, while Microsoft would develop a new operating system, OS / 2 3. 0, to later succeed OS / 2 2. 0.

Microsoft would later imitate much of it in Windows 95.

IBM later introduced OS / 2 into the United States v. Microsoft case, blaming unfair marketing tactics on Microsoft's part.

The Amstrad PCW's bundled word processing software, LocoScript, used the term " in limbo " to refer to files which had been deleted but which could still be restored, a concept similar to that later implemented by the Trash in the Apple Macintosh and the Recycle Bin in Microsoft Windows 95.

The icons of the operating system, which represented folders and application software were designed by Susan Kare, who later designed the icons for Microsoft Windows 3. 0.

It was replaced by Microsoft Excel which followed some years later on both the Apple Macintosh ( 1985 ) and Microsoft Windows ( 1987 ).

* Microsoft Intermediate Language, a programming language that has been standardized later as the Common Intermediate Language

Initially it is impossible to find any mention of specific bugs on Microsoft's website, but later he notices that Microsoft has instated a system similar to the Debian one, though sugar-coated so as to not ruin the vision demanded by its customers.

OS / 2 is a series of computer operating systems, initially created by Microsoft and IBM, then later developed by IBM exclusively.

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.

Allen later convinced Gates to drop out of Harvard University in order to create Microsoft.