Microsoft's Windows Vista operating system also includes content-control software.

Newer ones include Free Lossless Audio Codec ( FLAC ), Apple's Apple Lossless, MPEG-4 ALS, Microsoft's Windows Media Audio 9 Lossless ( WMA Lossless ), Monkey's Audio, and TTA.

In late 1995, Doom was estimated to be installed on more computers worldwide than Microsoft's new operating system Windows 95, despite million-dollar advertising campaigns for the latter.

Other common theories as to the initials ' origins include " Graphics and Windows ", " Gates, William " ( Microsoft's president at the time ), or " Gates-Whitten " ( the two main designers of the program ).

Much of the popularity for Windows 2. 0 came by way of its inclusion as a " run-time version " with Microsoft's new graphical applications, Excel and Word for Windows.

This version was the precursor to the multimedia features available in Windows 3. 1 and later, and was part of Microsoft's specification for the Multimedia PC.

Windows NT version 3. 51 was Microsoft's entry into this field, and took away market share from Novell ( the dominant player ) in the following years.

One of Microsoft's biggest advances initially developed for Windows NT was a new 32-bit API, to replace the legacy 16-bit Windows API.

Windows XP lasted longer as Microsoft's flagship operating system than any other version of Windows, from 25 October 2001 to 30 January 2007 when it was succeeded by Windows Vista.

Operating systems ported to the architecture include SGI's IRIX, Microsoft's Windows NT ( until v4. 0 ), Windows CE, Linux, BSD, UNIX System V, SINIX, QNX, and MIPS Computer Systems ' own RISC / os.

This was encouraged by the support of the first two versions of Microsoft's Windows NT for Alpha, MIPS and PowerPC-and to a lesser extent the Clipper architecture and SPARC.

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.

New products based on OpenStep were released, including OpenStep Enterprise, a version for Microsoft's Windows NT.

The business demise of Netscape was a central premise of Microsoft's antitrust trial, wherein the Court ruled that Microsoft Corporation's bundling of Internet Explorer with the Windows operating system was a monopolistic and illegal business practice.

As a result of the dispute, IBM signed the license agreement 15 minutes before Microsoft's Windows 95 launch event, which was later than their competitors and this badly hurt sales of IBM PCs.

Microsoft's ActiveSync and Windows Mobile Device Center only synchronize with Microsoft Outlook or a Microsoft Exchange server.

* Interix – a full-featured POSIX and Unix environment subsystem for Microsoft's Windows NT-based operating systems

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.

As mentioned, SMIL is not yet native to web browsers, so in order to put SMIL in a web page, one must embed it and open it in a plug-in such as Apple's QuickTime or Microsoft's Windows Media Player.

This protects critical Windows system files by preventing programs other than Microsoft's operating system update mechanisms such as the Package Installer, Windows Installer and other update components from modifying them.

Prior to the release of Windows Mobile 2003, third-party software was developed using Microsoft's eMbedded Visual Tools, eMbedded Visual Basic ( eVB ) and eMbedded Visual C ( eVC ).

* Run Microsoft's Windows Mobile, Pocket PC edition

Microsoft's current Windows Mobile release is Windows Mobile 6. 1, and one of the major changes from Windows Mobile 6 is the introduction of instant messaging-like texting.

With Mobile 6 also came Microsoft's new naming conventions and devices were no longer called Pocket PCs: devices with no phone abilities were named Windows Mobile Classic, and devices with phone abilities were named Windows Mobile Professional.

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.

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

* Microsoft's Premium Mobile Experiences team, responsible for the KIN phones.

The Zen Portable Media Center, announced on January 8, 2004 and released eight months later, is based on Microsoft's Portable Media Center interface, runs Windows Mobile and supports WMV, WMA, and MP3, and can display JPEG images ; other video formats are supported through transcoding.

MSN Mobile product offerings originate from two mobile-focused groups within Microsoft's online services division.

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.

* Microsoft's Design Guidelines discourage developers from using Hungarian notation when they choose names for the elements in. NET Class Libraries, although it was common on prior Microsoft development platforms like Visual Basic 6 and earlier.

Initially very basic and supporting only Microsoft's Active Server Pages, this feature was greatly enhanced in GoLive 6, adding support for the PHP language and several databases.

One title, Ace Combat X, was released on the PlayStation Portable ( PSP ) platform, while another title, Ace Combat 6, was released on Microsoft's Xbox 360 platform.

: Scientists at Microsoft's new MS-NeatStuff ( tm ) lab announced today that they have discovered a previously unknown integer, sitting about 2 / 3 of the way between the integers 5 and 6.

Before the merger with CBS Radio, LAUNCHcast only worked with Microsoft's Internet Explorer 6. 0 and up web browser with Flash 6. 0 or higher, and in Yahoo!

Formed on January 7, 1997 ( with release of Mac OS 7. 6 ), it was formerly situated within Microsoft's Specialized Devices and Applications Group inside the Entertainment and Devices Division., with it now being inside the Microsoft Office division.

Microsoft's Internet Explorer 6 has a bug in its Swedish version where. sv is used instead of. se when typing ctrl + return for appending the suffix.

Its subsequent inclusion in Microsoft's DirectX 6. 0 and OpenGL 1. 3 ( via the GL_EXT_texture_compression_s3tc extension ) led to widespread adoption of the technology among hardware and software makers.

Microsoft's HOS uses the horizontal overscan instead of the vertical to transmit low-speed program-associated data at 6. 4 kbit / s, which is slow enough to be recorded on a VCR without data corruption.

One notable exception to this is Microsoft's Internet Explorer 6 browser, which will render a page in quirks mode if the DOCTYPE is preceded by an XML prolog, regardless of whether a full DOCTYPE is specified.

Today Microsoft's Internet Explorer uses the operating system's URL Monikers internally to download resources.