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.

Microsoft's Windows Vista was planned to be a minor release between Windows XP and then the codenamed Windows " Blackcomb " ( Windows 7 ), but it turned out to become a major release which took 5 years of development.

* Microsoft's Secure Socket Tunneling Protocol ( SSTP ), introduced in Windows Server 2008 and in Windows Vista Service Pack 1.

A modern handwriting recognition system can be seen in Microsoft's operating system running on Tablet PCs ( notably Windows XP Tablet PC Edition, Windows Vista, and Windows 7 ).

The latest release is the UE3, designed for Microsoft's DirectX 9 ( for Windows and Xbox 360 ), DirectX 10 ( for Windows Vista ) and DirectX 11 ( for Windows 7 and later ), OpenGL for Mac OS X, PlayStation 3, Wii U, iOS, Android, and Stage 3D for Adobe Flash Player 11.

Also, on Microsoft's Entertainment Desktop sets ( designed for Windows Vista ), the Windows key is in the middle of the keyboard, below all other keys ( where the user's thumbs rest ).

* Live File System, Microsoft's implementation of Universal Disk Format ( UDF ) 2. 5 in Windows Vista

In versions of Windows prior to Windows Vista, Microsoft's Intellitype software is required to configure the behavior of the shortcut keys.

For Microsoft's Windows Vista and Windows Server 2008 implementations, more bits are used.

* Microsoft's Windows Vista and 7

Microsoft Windows versions prior to Windows Vista do not work with the networking parts of the USB CDC, instead using Microsoft's own derivative named Microsoft RNDIS, a serialized version of the Microsoft NDIS ( Network Driver Interface Specification ).

* Consolas in Microsoft's Windows Vista, Windows 7, Microsoft Office 2007 and Microsoft Visual Studio 2010

In Windows Server 2008 and high-end versions of both Windows Vista and Windows 7 ( Enterprise and Ultimate ), a minimal SUA is included, but most of the utilities must again be downloaded from Microsoft's web site.

He has toured, recorded, and composed with Robert Fripp and The League of Crafty Guitarists, and contributed and / or directed audio for such games as Monolith's No One Lives Forever, Microsoft's Combat Flight Sim series, the MechAssault series on Xbox, the FASA Studio adaptation of Shadowrun on the Xbox360 and Windows Vista platforms, Valve's Left4Dead and most recently on Portal 2.

Also, in versions of Windows before Vista, it is also not possible to run Microsoft's Windows Update or Microsoft Update with any other browser due to the service's implementation of an ActiveX control, which no other browser supports.

Windows Server 2003 / 2008, Tablet PC Editions, and Windows Vista Ultimate, Enterprise and Business editions come with Microsoft's Microsoft Management Console, Windows Registry Editor and various command-line utilities that may be used to administrate a remote machine.

The song " No Hay Problema " is included as background / setup music for Microsoft's Windows Server 2003 and was also used as the background / setup music for an early build of Windows Longhorn, now known as Windows Vista.

The Red Screen of Death ( abbreviated RSoD, sometimes called " Red Screen of Doom ") is the error message which existed in some beta versions of Microsoft's operating system, Windows Vista.

Two of his songs were included in Microsoft's Windows Vista.

System Restore is a component of Microsoft's Windows Me, Windows XP, Windows Vista and Windows 7, but not Windows 2000, operating systems that allows for the rolling back of system files, registry keys, installed programs, etc., to a previous state in the event of system malfunction or failure.

They wrote and recorded a new batch of songs relatively quickly and Every Kind of Light was released in June 2005 ; its songs " Love Comes " and " I Guess You're Right " are included as sample music tracks in the release of Microsoft's Windows Vista operating system.

He spoke at WWDC 2006 on the perceived similarities between Mac OS X Tiger and Windows Vista, including the comparison of Apple's Aqua interface and Microsoft's Aero interface.

He also spoke at WWDC 2009 and gave an in-depth demonstration of Snow Leopard, which included further references to Microsoft's Windows operating system — claiming that Windows 7 is just another version of their highly criticized Vista release, citing the ongoing use of the Windows registry, DLLs, the User Account Control subsystem and existence of an interactive disk defragmenter.

Windows Vista marks the first version of Microsoft's NT operating system to include a hardware abstraction layer ( HAL ) independent version of Sysprep in the " out of box " installation.