The Chinese version of Microsoft's 3D Movie Maker contained a Doraemon-themed expansion pack.

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.

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.

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.

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

With a focus on interoperability with Microsoft's LAN Manager, Tridgell released " netbios for unix ", nbserver, version 1. 5 in December 1993.

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

The MS-DOS was a version specialized for and only bootable on the Tandy 1000, as it would announce on the screen of any other PC-compatible one tried to boot with it ; it included a version of BASICA ( Microsoft's Advanced GW-BASIC ) with support for the enhanced CGA graphics modes ( a. k. a. Tandy Graphics or TGA ) and three-voice sound hardware of the Tandy 1000.

The Mac version supported only Windows Media encoded media ( up to version 9 ) enclosed in the ASF format, lacking support for all other formats such as MP4, MPEG, and Microsoft's own AVI format.

No mass-market personal computer hardware vendor dared to be incompatible with the latest version of Windows, and Microsoft's annual WinHEC conferences provided a setting in which Microsoft could lobby for and — in some cases dictate — the pace and direction of the hardware of the PC industry.

Groove Virtual Office 3. 1 was the last version before Microsoft's acquisition of Groove Networks.

A hacked version of Microsoft's MPEG-4v3 codec became known as DivX

InfoWorld magazine editor Stewart Alsop helped popularize its use in this way by lampooning Bill Gates, then CEO of Microsoft, with a Golden Vaporware award for the 18-month late release of Microsoft's first version of Windows in 1985.

In 1994, as customer anticipation increased for Microsoft's new version of Windows ( codenamed " Chicago "), Apple announced a set of upgrades to its own System 7 operating system that were not due to be released until two years later.

Xenix was Microsoft's version of Unix intended for use on microcomputers ; because Microsoft was not able to license the " UNIX " name itself, they gave it an original name.

The addition of the " D " to COM was due to extensive use of DCE / RPC ( Distributed Computing Environment / Remote Procedure Calls ) – more specifically Microsoft's enhanced version, known as MSRPC.

Microsoft's COM is an example of such a system for local use, DCOM a modified version that supports remote access.

It was an accident of history that the IBM PC happened to have an Intel CPU ( instead of the technically superior Motorola 68000 that had been tipped for it, or an IBM in-house design ), and that it shipped with IBM PC-DOS ( a licensed version of Microsoft's MS-DOS ) rather than the CP / M-86 operating system, but these accidents were to have enormous significance in later years.

Microsoft's version numbering identifies the specific release and revision of Microsoft software products.

A reviewer at The Seattle Times ( and coauthor of Gates: How Microsoft's Mogul Reinvented an Industry and Made Himself the Richest Man in America, a 1993 biography of Gates ), called Gates ' coverage of the Internet " weakest of all " the topics Gates covered, saying the " World Wide Web receives just four index citations and is treated as a functional appendage of the Internet ( rather than its driving force ), and both come off as a subset of the Information Highway, a term Gates uses with abandon despite its disfavor among digerati.

The video for Good Times was included as part of the multimedia samples included on Microsoft's Windows 95 Companion CD-ROM.

The latest fonts versions that were available from Microsoft's Core fonts for the Web project were 2. x ( e. g. 2. 82 for Arial, Times New Roman and Courier New for MS Windows ), published in 2000.

The site was established as MSNBC. com in 1996 along with the MSNBC cable news channel ; both of which were initially joint ventures with the software company Microsoftthe MSNBC channel was based in New Jersey, and MSNBC. com was based at Microsoft's headquarters in Redmond, Washington.

In an advertising campaign for Microsoft's MSN 8 Internet service, on October 24, 2002, hundreds of decals of the MSN butterfly logo were affixed to surfaces in New York City and held there with static cling.

Although by default the World Wind download only comes with public domain imagery from the USGS and Landsat 7, Community members have made available high resolution imagery for New Zealand and New York, here and additional countries, as well as Microsoft's Virtual Earth data ( for non-commercial purposes )

The fonts were licensed to Microsoft by Monotype Corporation or designed for Microsoft by Microsoft's own font designers or external designers.

So at the end of 2006, Linotype — the company that had challenged the validity of Microsoft's Segoe patents — was a wholly owned subsidiary of the company — Monotype — that had originally licensed Segoe to Microsoft.

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 ).

However, machinima artists, such as Edgeworks Entertainment, protested the prohibitions on extending Microsoft's fictional universes ( a common component of fan fiction ) and on selling anything from sites hosting derivative works.

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.

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.

SVG has been in development since 1999 by a group of companies within the W3C after the competing standards Precision Graphics Markup Language ( PGML ) – developed from Adobe's PostScript – and Vector Markup Language ( VML ) – developed from Microsoft's RTF – were submitted to W3C in 1998.

At the time, Oracle wished to differentiate their server-oriented software from Microsoft's desktop-oriented products.

Many other word processing applications exist, including WordPerfect ( which dominated the market from the mid-1980s to early-1990s on computers running Microsoft's MS-DOS operating system ) and open source applications OpenOffice. org Writer, LibreOffice Writer, AbiWord, KWord, and LyX.

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.

These games, which are not developed by the industry giants, are often available in the form of downloadable content from services such as Microsoft's Xbox Live or Apple's App Store and usually cost much less than more major releases.

More visualizations such as " Trilogy II " and " Yule Log " can be downloaded from Microsoft's website.

* 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.

Microsoft has received a great deal of bad press surrounding their Palladium software architecture, evoking comments such as " Few pieces of vaporware have evoked a higher level of fear and uncertainty than Microsoft's Palladium ", " Palladium is a plot to take over cyberspace ", and " Palladium will keep us from running any software not personally approved by Bill Gates ".

Microsoft's Windows NT system is a conceptual descendant of RSX-11M but is more directly descended from an object based operating system Cutler developed for a RISC processor ( PRISM ) which was never released.

An MSDN subscription also allows access to obsolete software from Microsoft's past.

In addition, up until 2002 it was available for download from Microsoft's web site as freeware (". exe " files for Microsoft Windows and in ". sit. hqx " archives for Mac OS X ) under a proprietary license imposing some restrictions on usage and distribution, allowing it to be used by end users in any system supporting installation of " exe " or ". sit. hqx " files and supporting TrueType fonts.

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.

Microsoft's first operating system, MS-DOS, was originally called Quick and Dirty Operating System ( QDOS ), prior to its purchase from Seattle Computer Products.

As part of this agreement, the University of Waterloo was to receive $ 2. 3 million in funding from the Microsoft Canada Academic Innovation Alliance and would introduce Microsoft's C # programming language in its Electrical and Computer Engineering programs ( also known as ECE.

The MASM32 package is a mature project providing support for the Windows API under Microsoft's Macro Assembler by using custom made or converted headers and libraries from the Platform SDK.

The Samba Team is also implementing DCOM for over-the-wire interoperability purposes: unlike the Wine Team, they are not currently interested in binary-interoperability, as the Samba MSRPC implementation is far from binary-interoperable with Microsoft's MSRPC.