Very occasionally, a more deadpan Dave would appear: on a story regarding Microsoft's intention to ensure that the Xbox marketing budget outweighed Sony's PS2 expenditure, Dave remarked that, " Money is the most important thing.

The original intention was to release a PowerPC edition of NT 3. 5, but according to Microsoft's David Thompson, " we basically sat around for 9 months fixing bugs while we waited for IBM to finish the Power PC hardware ".

Microsoft's CLS command ( for clearing the screen ) was renamed HOME in Applesoft.

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.

Microsoft's Encarta, launched in 1993, was a landmark example as it had no printed equivalent.

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.

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.

Compounding the reaction was the license's statement, " If you do any of these things, you can expect to hear from Microsoft's lawyers who will tell you that you have to stop distributing your items right away.

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.

Multiplan for the Apple Macintosh was Microsoft's first GUI spreadsheet ; it was also the most successful spreadsheet for the early Mac.

A fundamental difference between Multiplan and its competitors was Microsoft's decision to use R1C1 addressing instead of the A1 addressing introduced by VisiCalc.

Those who opposed Microsoft's position countered that the browser was still a distinct and separate product which did not need to be tied to the operating system, since a separate version of Internet Explorer was available for Mac OS.

This was primarily due to the increased usage of Microsoft's Internet Explorer web browser software, and partly because the Netscape Corporation ( later purchased by AOL ) did not sustain Netscape Navigator's technical innovation after the late 1990s.

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.

IBM developers complained about the terseness and lack of comments in Microsoft's code, while Microsoft developers complained that IBM's code was bloated.

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.

Support for Microsoft's NTFS file system was also missing, but could be freely installed as well.

When Unreal was finally released, Microsoft's Direct3D API was growing almost exponentially in popularity and Epic was fairly quick to develop a renderer for their game engine.

Underlying these disputes were questions over whether Microsoft altered or manipulated its application programming interfaces ( APIs ) to favor Internet Explorer over third party web browsers, Microsoft's conduct in forming restrictive licensing agreements with original equipment manufacturers ( OEMs ), and Microsoft's intent in its course of conduct.

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.

* Visual Basic for Applications, the application edition of Microsoft's Visual Basic programming language

The Windows API, informally WinAPI, is Microsoft's core set of application programming interfaces ( APIs ) available in the Microsoft Windows operating systems.

DCOM, which originally was called " Network OLE ", extends Microsoft's COM, and provides the communication substrate under Microsoft's COM + application server infrastructure.

Direct3D is part of Microsoft's DirectX application programming interface ( API ).

Microsoft's application software also exhibits lock-in through the use of proprietary file formats.

It was an early product in the Microsoft application portfolio and differed significantly from Microsoft's other software, which was largely business-oriented.

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.

Although StarBasic itself is similar to other dialects of Basic, such as Microsoft's VBA, the application programming interface ( API ) is very different, as the example below of a macro illustrates.

Additional application programming interfaces ( APIs ) arrived for a variety of tasks, such as Microsoft's WinG graphics library for Windows 3. x, and their later DirectDraw interface for hardware acceleration of 2D games within Windows 95 and later.

In 2002, a number of spammers began abusing the Messenger Service, a function of Windows designed to allow administrators to send alerts to users ' workstations ( not to be confused with Windows Messenger or Windows Live Messenger, a free instant messaging application ) in Microsoft's Windows NT-based operating systems.

For example, one of the key questions in the United States v. Microsoft antitrust trial was whether Microsoft's Internet Explorer web browser was part of its Windows operating system or a separable piece of application software.

One application of " live analysis " is to recover RAM data ( for example, using Microsoft's COFEE tool, windd, WindowsSCOPE ) prior to removing an exhibit.

Publisher is included in higher-end editions of Microsoft Office, reflecting Microsoft's emphasis on the application as an easy-to-use and less expensive alternative to the " heavyweights ," with a focus on the small business market where firms do not have dedicated design professionals available to make marketing materials and other documents.

Charles Simonyi ( ˈkɑːroj ; born September 10, 1948, son of Károly Simonyi ) is a Hungarian-American computer software executive who, as head of Microsoft's application software group, oversaw the creation of Microsoft's flagship Office suite of applications.

In addition to the typical " out-of-the-box " modules, Microsoft's community of Independent Software Vendors ( ISV ) has developed a number of add-ons and verticals, all generally referred to as Third Party applications, which complement or enhance the existing functionality of the application.

The application is installed manually by the user, not through Microsoft's Zune PC software.

Judge Jackson's order that Microsoft be divided into two companies, one owning the Windows operating system and the other owning Microsoft's various application software products, including the Internet Explorer web browser, was also reversed on appeal.

The most prominent application of IIS and ISAPI is Microsoft's web server.