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.

It differs from Microsoft's declaration in that it addresses machinima specifically instead of general game-derived content, allows use of game audio if Blizzard can legally license it, requires derivative material to meet the Entertainment Software Rating Board's Teen content rating guideline, defines noncommercial use differently, and does not address extensions of fictional universes.

2004 – The company expanded its Microsoft infrastructure management capabilities by acquiring Aelita Software, and won Microsoft's prestigious Global ISV of the Year award for the first time.

Software: A typical 820-II came with the CP / M 2. 2 operating system, a diagnostic disk, a copy of WordStar word processor software, and Microsoft's BASIC-80 computer language.

DotGNU is a part of the GNU Project that aims to provide a free software replacement for Microsoft's. NET Framework by Free Software Foundation.

Software which was purchased by Microsoft and became the basis for Microsoft's Windows Journal

* Software security goes mainstream In the wake of Microsoft's Windows 98 release, 1999 becomes a banner year for security ( and hacking ).

* Seadragon Software: A technology used in Microsoft's Photosynth.

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.

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.

* Software API for computers Operating systems: Microsoft's DirectSound3D and XAudio, OpenAL

He has worked for Origin Systems, Electronic Arts, id Software, Wild Tangent, Microsoft's Xbox, Atari, and Exigent.

Would later ( 2005-2010 ) serve as Microsoft's Chief Software Architect.

Seen as the successor technology to spreadsheet software in reviews of the time, and rival to the then-dominant Lotus 1-2-3, Javelin won numerous industry awards, including besting Microsoft's new Excel for the InfoWorld Software Product of the Year award.

Software for the PC-98 generally ran from program and data disks ( Disk 0 & 1 ) or ( A & B ), and NEC did not have a strong GUI to go up against Microsoft's Windows 95 when it took Japan's PC market by storm.

The increasing popularity of DSM has led to DSM frameworks being added to existing IDEs, e. g. Eclipse Modeling Project ( EMP ) with EMF and GMF, or in Microsoft's DSL Tools for Software Factories.

BBspot won third place in the HumorFeed Satire News Awards twice, in 2006 for its story " Microsoft's AntiSpyware Tool Removes Internet Explorer " and in 2007 for " Teen Using Myspace To Lure Bands to Los Angeles ".

Sysprep is the name of Microsoft's System Preparation Tool for Microsoft Windows operating system deployment.

* MAK Activation may occur independently ( by means of connection to Microsoft through internet or telephone activation ) or through a proxy using Microsoft's Volume Activation Management Tool ( VAMT ).

Because of a known vulnerability in older versions of Internet Explorer, some e-mail programs, such as Microsoft's Outlook Express and Microsoft Outlook programs, may install and execute the worm as soon as the e-mail message is viewed.

* The. NET Framework is built on the Common Language Runtime, Microsoft's commercial implementation of the CLI for desktop and server systems, and also encompasses a large collection of programming frameworks and libraries.

*. NET Compact Framework is Microsoft's commercial implementation of the CLI for portable devices and Xbox 360.

ClearType is Microsoft's implementation of subpixel rendering technology.

A current LZ-based coding scheme that performs well is LZX, used in Microsoft's CAB format.

Implementation using Intel's Threading Building Blocks ( TBB ) and Microsoft's Parallel Pattern Library ( PPL ) to run on multi-core processors is shown to perform well in practice.

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.

The object oriented aspect of SOM is similar to, and a direct competitor to, Microsoft's Component Object Model, though it is implemented in a radically different manner ; for instance, one of the most notable differences between SOM and COM is SOM's support for inheritance ( one of the most fundamental concepts of OO programming )— COM does not have such support.

This approach is the basis of at least five proof-of-correctness systems for computer programs, beginning with the Stanford Pascal Verifier in the late 1970s and continuing though to Microsoft's Spec # system of 2005.

A competitor to Microsoft's Active Server Pages ( ASP ) server-side script engine and similar languages, PHP is installed on more than 20 million Web sites and 1 million Web servers.

* Bingbot is the name of Microsoft's Bing webcrawler.

Apache is the most commonly used web server software ( according to Netcraft statistics ) and Microsoft's IIS is also commonly used.

* July 27 – Windows NT 3. 1, the first version of Microsoft's line of Windows NT operating systems, is released to manufacturing.

* Newsweek Magazine: " Microsoft's Tormentor How an affable trial lawyer with an understated canniness is driving Gates & Co. to the wall ", March 1, 1999

Microsoft's ActiveX Data Objects ( ADO ) is a set of Component Object Model ( COM ) objects for accessing data sources.

ADO is positioned as a successor to Microsoft's earlier object layers for accessing data sources, including RDO ( Remote Data Objects ) and DAO ( Data Access Objects ).

In large organizations, this is a task usually delegated to what is known as directory services such as openLDAP, Novell's eDirectory or Microsoft's Active Directory.

The Common Language Runtime ( CLR ) is the virtual machine component of Microsoft's. NET framework and is responsible for managing the execution of. NET programs.