Microsoft's MSDN license agreement makes a specific exception for Microsoft Office, allowing the subscription holder to personally use it for business purposes without needing a separate license — but only with the " MSDN Premium Subscription " and even so only " directly related to the design, development and test and / or documentation of software projects " as stated in the MSDN licensing FAQ.

At E3 in May 2004, Microsoft's Ken Lobb stated that Rare had obtained Nintendo DS development kits and was working on two games for the Nintendo DS.

Microsoft's stated goal with version 7 was to fix the most significant bugs and areas which caused the most trouble for developers, however full compatibility with standards was postponed.

" Kristan Reed of Eurogamer stated " With Microsoft's typically brilliant online implantation underpinning everything, alongside its determination to break technical boundaries Forza Motorsport is a quite staggering achievement for a first attempt and is a must have for any driving game fan.

The president of the Brazilian agency in charge of the governments technology initiatives, Sérgio Amadeu, unequivocally stated that he was against spending Brazilian tax-payers money on furthering Microsoft's monopoly:

In November 2005, Simon Daniels, a program manager in Microsoft's typography group, stated that " The original Segoe fonts were not created for or by Microsoft.

The momentum generated by Rose and the UML enabled Rational to establish a partnership with developers to the Windows platform ; Rational's aim was to secure Microsoft's public support for Catapulse — an independent company aimed at providing hosted software development services using products from Rational and elsewhere.

Apple employees, including Randy Wigginton, adapted Microsoft's interpreter for the Apple II and added several features.

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

* Figaro DB-An embedded, native XML Database for the Microsoft's. NET Framework built upon Berkeley DB.

These include the World Wide Web Consortium's Resource Description Framework ( RDF ) as well as Platform for Internet Content Selection ( PICS ) labels used by Microsoft's Internet Explorer Content Advisor.

* 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.

Microsoft's guidelines call for always using the term context menu, and explicitly deprecate shortcut menu.

At the end of 2006, BT ( the UK's former state owned monopoly phone company ) started offering BT Vision, which combines the digital free-to-air standard Freeview through an aerial, and on-demand IPTV, delivered over a BT Broadband connection through the Vision set-top box ( BT have chosen to deploy Microsoft's Mediaroom platform for this.

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.

* VDX ( Microsoft's XML for Visio Drawing )

Companies take different attitudes towards such practices, ranging from open acceptance ( such as Texas Instruments for its graphing calculators and Lego for its Lego Mindstorms robotics gear ) to outright hostility ( such as Microsoft's attempts to lock out Xbox hackers or the DRM routines on Blu-ray Disc players designed to sabotage compromised players ).

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.

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.

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.

* Multiple Active Results Sets, a technique used within Microsoft's SQL Server database management system to enable database connections to be used for multiple purposes

These include MySQL Connector / Net for integration with Microsoft's Visual Studio ( languages such as C # and VB are most commonly used ) and the JDBC driver for Java.

* IL for Microsoft's. NET

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.

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.

* Next-Generation Secure Computing Base ( NGSCB )— Microsoft's trusted computing architecture ( codename Palladium )

NGSCB is part of Microsoft's Trustworthy Computing initiative.

* Microsoft's NGSCB page

* Nexus Computing Agents, trusted software programs in Microsoft's delayed NGSCB initiative

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.

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.

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.

* 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.