* " Atlas " was the former name for ASP. NET AJAX, Microsoft software, a set of ASP. NET extensions providing Ajax functionality

1993 saw a release for PCs with Windows 3. 1 as part of the original Microsoft Arcade package.

Tridgell was a major developer of the Samba software, analysing the Server Message Block protocol used for workgroup and network file sharing by Microsoft Windows products.

Applesoft BASIC was a dialect of Microsoft BASIC supplied with the Apple II series of computers.

Applesoft BASIC was supplied by Microsoft and its name is derived from the names of both Apple and Microsoft.

As Steve Wozniak, the creator of Integer BASIC and the only person who understood it well enough to add floating point features, was busy with the Disk II drive and controller and with Apple DOS, Apple turned to Microsoft, who was the BASIC vendor of choice after their success with Altair BASIC, and licensed a 10 KB assembly language version of BASIC dubbed " Applesoft.

" Apple reportedly obtained an eight-year license for Applesoft BASIC from Microsoft for a flat fee of $ 21, 000, renewing it in 1985 through an arrangement that gave Microsoft the rights and source code for Apple's Macintosh version of BASIC.

Applesoft was similar to ( and indeed had a common code base with ) Microsoft BASIC implementations on other 6502-based computers, such as Commodore BASIC: it used line numbers, and spaces were not necessary in lines.

* 2000 – United States v. Microsoft: Microsoft is ruled to have violated United States antitrust laws by keeping " an oppressive thumb " on its competitors.

* wma – the popular Windows Media Audio format owned by Microsoft.

Microsoft first introduced AGP support into Windows 95 OEM Service Release 2 ( OSR2 version 1111 or 950B ) via the USB SUPPLEMENT to OSR2 patch.

One such program is ProSystem, written in C / C ++ for the Microsoft Windows operating system.

Active Directory ( AD ) is a directory service created by Microsoft for Windows domain networks.

Stand-alone official AIM client software includes advertisements and is available for Microsoft Windows, Windows Mobile, Mac OS, Mac OS X, Android, iOS, BlackBerry OS.

A legal, out-of-the-box installer has been created for Microsoft Windows using WinUAE.

He first gained media attention for breaking into several high-profile computer networks, including those of The New York Times, Yahoo !, and Microsoft, culminating in his 2003 arrest.

Advanced power management ( APM ) is an API developed by Intel and Microsoft and released in 1992 which enables an operating system running an IBM-compatible personal computer to work with the BIOS ( part of the computer's firmware ) to achieve power management.

Microsoft dropped support for APM in Windows Vista.

Its first product was Turbo Pascal in 1983, developed by Anders Hejlsberg ( who later developed. NET and C # for Microsoft ) and before Borland acquired the product sold in Scandinavia under the name of Compas Pascal.

The types of software include web pages developed in languages and frameworks like HTML, PHP, Perl, JSP, ASP. NET, XML, and desktop applications like OpenOffice. org, Microsoft Word developed in languages like C, C ++, Objective-C, Java, C #, or Smalltalk.

For instance, if a user is designing a Microsoft Windows desktop application, he / she might use the. NET Windows Forms library to design the desktop application and call its APIs like Form1. Close () and Form1. Show () to close or open the application and write the additional operations him / herself that it need to have.

The Common Language Infrastructure ( CLI ) is an open specification developed by Microsoft and standardized by ISO and ECMA that describes the executable code and runtime environment that form the core of the Microsoft. NET Framework and the free and open source implementations Mono and Portable. NET.

* Entity Data Model, the conceptual schema of data that Microsoft ADO. NET Entity framework works with

The Microsoft. NET Framework languages always compile to Common Intermediate Language ( CIL ) which is then just-in-time compiled into native machine code.

Most major compiler vendors for Windows still provide free copies of their command-line tools, including Microsoft ( Visual C ++, Platform SDK,. NET Framework SDK, nmake utility ), Embarcadero Technologies ( bcc32 compiler, make utility ).

Today there are several languages in the ML family ; the two major dialects are Standard ML ( SML ) and Caml, but others exist, including F # — a language that Microsoft supports for their. NET platform.

This has raised much disagreement due to the patents that Microsoft holds on, and related to, the. NET Framework.

Zonnon is available as a plug-in language for the Microsoft Visual Studio for. NET development environment.

** The framework Tao for Microsoft. NET includes OpenGL between other multimedia libraries.

Similarly, Microsoft announced Language Integrated Query ( LINQ ) and DLINQ, an implementation of LINQ, in September 2005, to provide close, language-integrated database query capabilities with its programming languages C # and VB. NET 9.

* Microsoft. NET Remoting offers RPC facilities for distributed systems implemented on the Windows platform.

Microsoft has abandoned reference counting in favor of tracing garbage collection for the. NET Framework.

Red-eye removal is built into many popular consumer graphics editing software packages, or is supported through red-eye reduction plug-ins ; examples include Adobe Photoshop, Apple iPhoto, Corel Photo-Paint, GIMP, Google Picasa, Paint. NET and Microsoft Windows Live Photo Gallery.

In 2008, a study by Microsoft showed that the average chain of contacts between users of its. NET Messenger Service was 6. 6 people.

The standard has been implemented in many recent technologies, including XML, the Java programming language, the Microsoft. NET Framework, and modern operating systems.

* The Common Language Infrastructure virtual machine at the heart of the Microsoft. NET initiative.

* The class System. IO. Compression. DeflateStream of the Microsoft. NET Framework 4. 5.

* C # ( and other. NET languages ), via Code Contracts ( a Microsoft Research project integrated into the. NET Framework 4. 0 )

Common Intermediate Language ( CIL, pronounced either " sil " or " kil ") ( formerly called Microsoft Intermediate Language or MSIL ) is the lowest-level human-readable programming language defined by the Common Language Infrastructure ( CLI ) specification and is used by the. NET Framework and Mono.

Microsoft. NET Framework up to and including version 2. 0 is supported, however versions 2. 0 SP1, 3. x, and greater are not.

Microsoft. NET Framework 2. 0 base class library supports it in the System. IO. Compression namespace.

* The CLI, also known by the implementation names. NET Framework ( from Microsoft ) and Mono ( from Novell )

Most have in common a dependence on the Microsoft. NET Framework, and the Common Language Infrastructure ( CLI ).

Windows API Code Pack for Microsoft. NET Framework is a. Net wrapper library for Windows API.

For a long time, the Microsoft Visual Studio family of compilers and tools and Borland's compilers were the only tools that could provide this ( although at least in the case of Windows, the SDK itself is downloadable for free separately from the entire IDE suite, from Microsoft Windows SDK for Windows 7 and. NET Framework 4 ).

* Windows API Code Pack for Microsoft. NET Framework

The Microsoft Operations Framework ( MOF ) is based on ITIL v2.

Similar and competitive packages included SmartWare, Microsoft Works, Context MBA, Framework, Enable and Ability Office.

It has been deprecated in favor of the Microsoft. NET Remoting, a part of their. NET Framework.

The Microsoft Windows Presentation Foundation ( WPF ) defines XAML, another declarative UI language similar to XUL — it runs on top of the. NET Framework stack.

* Microsoft Operations Framework, a set of operational guidelines based on the Information Technology Infrastructure Library ( ITIL )

* Microsoft Solutions Framework