Shared source is an umbrella term covering some of Microsoft's legal mechanisms for software source code distribution.

Microsoft's Shared Source Initiative, launched in May 2001, includes a spectrum of technologies and licenses.

Shared Source programs allow individuals and organizations to access Microsoft's source code for reference ( e. g. when developing complementary systems ), for review and auditing from a security perspective ( mostly wanted by some large corporations and governments ), and for development ( academic institutions, OEMs, individual developers ).

The Shared Source Common Language Infrastructure ( SSCLI ), previously codenamed Rotor, is Microsoft's shared source implementation of the CLI, the core of. NET.

Following recruitment of the project lead in August 2004, IronPython was made available as part of Microsoft's Shared Source initiative.

The Institution authored Opening the Open Source Debate ( June 2002 ), a report critical of Microsoft's open-source rivals.

He has also been a longtime advocate of using Mono-a free software implementation of Microsoft's. NET Framework-in GNOME.

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.

SVG has been in development since 1999 by a group of companies within the W3C after the competing standards Precision Graphics Markup Language ( PGML ) – developed from Adobe's PostScript – and Vector Markup Language ( VML ) – developed from Microsoft's RTF – were submitted to W3C in 1998.

Currently, Microsoft's Internet Explorer has limited support for SMIL features.

Microsoft has received a great deal of bad press surrounding their Palladium software architecture, evoking comments such as " Few pieces of vaporware have evoked a higher level of fear and uncertainty than Microsoft's Palladium ", " Palladium is a plot to take over cyberspace ", and " Palladium will keep us from running any software not personally approved by Bill Gates ".

Microsoft's. NET Framework has extended the PE format with features which support the Common Language Runtime ( CLR ).

This approach has been implemented in JXOS, Unununium as well as Microsoft's Singularity research project.

The " thumb " has different names in different environments: on the Macintosh it is called a " scroller "; on the Java platform it is called " thumb " or " knob "; Microsoft's. NET documentation refers to it as " scroll box " or " scroll thumb "; in other environments it is called " elevator ", " quint ", " puck ", " wiper " or " grip ".

), CP / M, and most recently by Microsoft's MS-DOS, has been very controversial with Mac users.

However, in Microsoft's Windows Presentation Foundation a command is considered to have been executed when the command's execute method has been invoked, but that does not necessarily mean that the application code has run.

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.

Microsoft's NMAKE has predefined rules that can be omitted from these makefiles, e. g. " c. obj $( CC )$( CFLAGS )".

It has fewer features than Microsoft's Internet Information Services ( IIS ) and its functions have been superseded by IIS and Visual Studio.

For example, the software company Microsoft has a large sphere of influence in the market of operating systems ; any entity wishing for its software product must ensure that it is compatible with Microsoft's products to be successful.

The game was set to be released for Sony's PlayStation 3, Microsoft's Xbox 360 and for personal computers, but the game was delayed and on 2 February 2007, EA announced that the game had been put on an indefinite hiatus, and to date no further information has been released.

For example, Microsoft has expertise in many IT based innovations where for a variety of reasons it is difficult for competitors to replicate Microsoft's core competences.

Microsoft's emphasis on MFC has been reduced in favor of its. NET Framework.

Nokia has been announcing its OVI store as a replacement service, which will be more comparable and competitive to Apple's iTunes Store and Microsoft's Zune Marketplace, an online store that will not only sell games but applications, media content, etc.

However, because GCC does not supply its own C runtime library, MinGW's C compiler currently targets Microsoft's old Visual C runtime library, MSVCRT ( the initial target was CRTDLL ), which was released in 1998 and therefore does not include support for C99 features ( or even all of C89 ); while targeting MSVCRT yields programs that are as native as possible, the lack of support for C99 has caused porting problems, particularly where printf-style conversion specifiers are concerned.

* Part of the source code for Microsoft's Windows NT 4 and Windows 2000 products has been leaked to the internet.

Most recently, Microsoft's Live Labs has released a zooming UI for web browsing called DeepFish for the Windows Mobile 5 platform.

Microsoft's Intellipoint Software for Microsoft Mice has a feature similar to Exposé as it also works with live images of windows, rather than a static representations.

WiX has proven to be so popular with Microsoft development teams that many of Microsoft's software products, such as SQL Server 2005, Office 2007, and Microsoft Codename Oslo are packaged using WiX.

By the release of Version 6 Unix ( 1975 ), the game had been ported to Unix C. An implementation of Hunt the Wumpus was typically included with MBASIC, Microsoft's BASIC interpreter for CP / M and one of the company's first products.

Bundling them together is alleged to have been responsible for Microsoft's victory in the browser wars as every Windows user had a copy of Internet Explorer.

Later models have been credited with spurring competition in the previously stagnant Palm market, closing many of the gaps that existed between Palm OS PDAs and those powered by Microsoft's Windows Mobile operating system, particularly on the multimedia front, but also with Sony's proprietary application launcher interface.

* PRNGs that have been designed specifically to be cryptographically secure, such as Microsoft's Cryptographic Application Programming Interface function CryptGenRandom, the Yarrow algorithm ( incorporated in Mac OS X and FreeBSD ), and Fortuna.

") This usage may have been popularised in some of Microsoft's responses to bug reports for its first Word for Windows product., but doesn't originate there.

It was an accident of history that the IBM PC happened to have an Intel CPU ( instead of the technically superior Motorola 68000 that had been tipped for it, or an IBM in-house design ), and that it shipped with IBM PC-DOS ( a licensed version of Microsoft's MS-DOS ) rather than the CP / M-86 operating system, but these accidents were to have enormous significance in later years.

On January 22, 2009, it was reported that the development team was heavily affected by Microsoft's ongoing job cuts, with indications that the entire Microsoft Flight Simulator team had been laid off.

Although titled " SQL slammer worm ", the program did not use the SQL language ; it exploited a buffer overflow bug in Microsoft's flagship SQL Server and Desktop Engine database products, for which a patch had been released six months earlier in MS02-039.

Many platforms have been based on the core Windows CE operating system, including Microsoft's AutoPC, Pocket PC 2000, Pocket PC 2002, Windows Mobile 2003, Windows Mobile 2003 SE, Windows Mobile 5. 0, Windows Mobile 6, Smartphone 2002, Smartphone 2003, Portable Media Center, Zune, Windows Phone and many industrial devices and embedded systems.

" Metro " had been the name of Microsoft's new " Windows 8-style " user interface.

Because Verisign code-signing certificates do not specify a Certificate Revocation List Distribution Point however, there was no way for them to be automatically detected as having been revoked, placing Microsoft's customers at risk.

Future versions in the Creative ZEN line exclusively use Microsoft's Media Transfer Protocol ( also known as PlaysForSure ), and some legacy devices have been supplied with firmware upgrades to support MTP.