Microsoft DirectX is a collection of application programming interfaces ( APIs ) for handling tasks related to multimedia, especially game programming and video, on Microsoft platforms.

When Microsoft later set out to develop a gaming console, the X was used as the basis of the name Xbox to indicate that the console was based on DirectX technology.

Direct3D ( the 3D graphics API within DirectX ) is widely used in the development of video games for Microsoft Windows, Microsoft Xbox, Microsoft Xbox 360 and some Sega Dreamcast games.

In 1995, Microsoft released ActiveMovie with DirectX Media SDK.

* Microsoft ’ s DirectX API

Microsoft has provided the DirectX set of APIs as part of every Windows installation since Windows 95 OSR2.

This component has been deprecated as of DirectX 9 and Microsoft no longer recommends its use for game development.

Only two games that sold a significant volume, Lego Island and Lego Rock Raiders, were based on the Direct3D retained mode, so Microsoft did not update the retained mode after DirectX 3. 0.

Microsoft included these features in DirectX, then added them to the requirements needed for drivers to get a Windows logo to encourage broad adoption of the features in other vendors ' hardware.

Direct3D is a Microsoft DirectX API subsystem component.

It has tools for developing and debugging C ++ code, especially code written for the Microsoft Windows API, the DirectX API, and the Microsoft. NET Framework.

Updates available through subscription included Visual C ++ 4. 1, which came with the Microsoft Game SDK ( later released separately as the DirectX SDK ), and Visual C ++ 4. 2.

At the same time Microsoft was in the process of massively investing in DirectX 7. 0 ( similar to 3. 0 largely in name only ).

David Blythe, the primary architect of Fahrenheit at SGI, worked at Microsoft on DirectX until 2010.

The success of WinG in enabling high-performance game development on Windows led directly to the inception of DirectX, which became the standard game development platform for Microsoft Windows, and later for the Xbox and Xbox 360 video game consoles.

A good example is DirectX, which is a collection of APIs for handling tasks related to multimedia, especially game programming, on Microsoft platforms.

Over time Microsoft began to work more closely with hardware developers, and started to target the releases of DirectX with those of the supporting graphics hardware.

* DirectX Video Acceleration ( DxVA ) API for Microsoft Windows operating-system.

Originally the LithTech engine was supposed to be called DirectEngine, as Monolith was developing it for Microsoft to be included as a 3D engine for use with Microsoft's DirectX technology.

DirectPlay will be supported in DirectX DLLs for the lifetime of Microsoft Windows XP, but from the autumn of 2007 the headers and libraries — vital components if developers wanted to develop new programs that utilize the technology — were absent from DirectX SDK.

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

MinGW is a native software port of the GNU Compiler Collection ( GCC ) to Microsoft Windows, along with a set of freely distributable import libraries and header files for the Windows API.

In modern Microsoft Windows and Linux operating systems, the keyboard layouts US International and UK International feature dead keys that allow one to type Latin letters with the acute, grave, circumflex, diæresis, tilde, and cedilla found in Western European languages ( specifically, those combinations found in the ISO Latin-1 character set ) directly: "+ e gives ë, ~+ o gives õ, etc.

KDE () is an international free software community producing an integrated set of cross-platform applications designed to run on Linux, FreeBSD, Microsoft Windows, Solaris and Mac OS X systems.

United States v. Microsoft was a set of civil actions filed against Microsoft Corporation pursuant to the Sherman Antitrust Act of 1890 Sections 1 and 2 on May 18, 1998 by the United States Department of Justice ( DOJ ) and 20 states.

In 1999, Brøderbund / The Learning Company released Totally Mad, a Microsoft Windows 95 / 98 compatible CD-ROM set collecting the magazine's content from # 1 through # 376 ( December 1998 ), plus over 100 Mad Specials including most of the recorded audio inserts.

The retail price of the game was set at 1200 Microsoft Points, or $ 15 USD.

In partnership with their contractors, Monotype Corporation, Microsoft spent much effort creating a set of high quality TrueType fonts that were compatible with the core fonts being bundled with PostScript equipment at the time.

While each edition of Windows 2000 was targeted at a different market, they shared a core set of features, including many system utilities such as the Microsoft Management Console and standard system administration applications.

Development of the Microsoft Windows port of CVS has split off into a separate project named CVSNT and has been more active in extending the feature set of the system, even porting the changes back to the UNIX platform.

TAPI 3. 1 supports the Microsoft Component Object Model and provides a set of COM objects to application programmers.

To expand PCs beyond one megabyte, Lotus, Intel, and Microsoft jointly created expanded memory ( EMS ), a bank-switching scheme to allow more memory provided by add-in hardware, and accessed by a set of four 16-Kilobyte " windows " inside the 20-bit addressing.

Valve, set up by former Microsoft employees, had difficulty finding a publisher for the game, with many believing that it was too ambitious a project.

It offers a set of application development frameworks, such as Microsoft. NET, Java and PHP, and data storage capabilities consistent with the Windows Azure platform provided by Microsoft.

Unlike the Mac OS ( Apple Macintosh ) and Microsoft Windows platforms ( excepting Microsoft Windows explorer. exe shell replacements ) which have historically provided a vendor-controlled, fixed set of ways to control how windows and panes display on a screen, and how the user may interact with them, window management for the X Window System was deliberately kept separate from the software providing the graphical display.

The umbrella-term. NET applies to a wide set of products and technologies from Microsoft.

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

Companies that have set up maquiladoras in Tijuana include Lanix, Hyundai, Sony, Vortec, BMW, Vizio, Toyota, Dell, Samsung, Kodak, Matsushita / Panasonic, Bimbo, GE, Nabisco, Ford, Microsoft, Cemex, Zonda, Philips, Pioneer, Airbus, Plantronics, Siemens, Jaguar, Pall Medical, Tara, Sanyo, Volkswagen and vimay.

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

Microsoft software carries a high level of vendor lock-in, based on its extensive set of proprietary APIs.

Thus, utilities to format, read, and write 1581-format disks in standard PC floppy drives under Linux or Microsoft Windows exist.

Cygwin permits installing inetd, syslogd, sshd, Apache, and other daemons as standard Windows services, allowing Microsoft Windows systems to emulate Unix and Linux servers.

The World Wide Web Consortium ( W3C ), founded in 1994 to promote open standards for the World Wide Web, brought Netscape Communications and Microsoft together with other companies to develop a standard for browser scripting languages, called " ECMAScript.

Hayes believes that this legal uncertainty is a suboptimal solution and that, though limited and " idiosyncratic ", the Microsoft and Blizzard licenses move towards an ideal video gaming industry standard for handling derivative works.

A standard for MIDI over USB was developed in 1999 as a joint effort between IBM, Microsoft, Altec Lansing, Roland Corporation, and Philips.

Additionally, many users feared that IBM, who had proven eminently capable of developing a superior PC operating system, knew very little about consumer marketing in the high-tech marketplace or establishing even a superior product as a standard in the cut-throat, get-there-first-at-any-cost arena dominated by Microsoft.

Touchscreens are becoming popular with the introduction of palmtop computers like those sold by the Palm, Inc. hardware manufacturer, some high range classes of laptop computers, mobile smartphones like HTC or the Apple Inc. iPhone, and the availability of standard touchscreen device drivers into the Symbian, Palm OS, Mac OS X, and Microsoft Windows operating systems.

Microsoft Windows XP SP2 and above provide the UK-Extended layout that behaves exactly the same as the standard UK layout for all the characters it can generate, but can additionally generate a number of diacritical marks, useful when working with text in other languages ( including Welsh-a UK language ).

The name Samba comes from SMB ( Server Message Block ), the name of the standard protocol used by the Microsoft Windows network file system.

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

Three days before this event, which Microsoft advertised as " a standard in reliability ," a leaked memo from Microsoft reported on by Mary Jo Foley revealed that Windows 2000 had " over 63, 000 potential known defects.

Waveform Audio File Format ( WAVE, or more commonly known as WAV due to its filename extension ), ( also, but rarely, named, Audio for Windows ) is a Microsoft and IBM audio file format standard for storing an audio bitstream on PCs.

The popular Minesweeper game under older versions of Microsoft Windows had a cheat mode triggered by entering the comment < tt > xyzzy < tt >, then pressing the key sequence shift and then enter, which turned a single pixel in the top-left corner of the entire screen into a small black or white dot depending on whether or not the mouse pointer is over a mine .< ref > This easter egg was present in all Windows versions through Windows XP Service Pack 2, but under Windows 95, 98 and NT 4. 0 the pixel was visible only if the standard Explorer desktop was not running.

It was inspired by two Sun Microsystems ' products, the Wabi for the Solaris operating system, and the Public Windows Initiative ( an attempt to get the Windows API fully reimplemented in the public domain as an ISO standard, but rejected by the entity due to pressure from Microsoft in 1996 ).

Reviewers and users developed suites of programs to test compatibility ; the ability to operate Lotus 1-2-3 or Microsoft Flight Simulator became a standard test.

StarOffice 9, released in November 2008, added support for version 1. 2 of the OpenDocument standard and Microsoft Office 2007 files and a number of other improvements.

A consortium called the Component Integration Laboratories (" CIL ") was established in 1993 by some Microsoft competitors to create OpenDoc as an " open-source " standard for cross-platform linking and embedding.

A debug monitor was provided as standard firmware for the AIM, and users could also purchase optional ROM chips with an assembler and a Microsoft BASIC interpreter to choose from.

* Display Control Interface, a standard developed by Microsoft and Intel using code from San Francisco Canyon Company for device drivers that control computer graphics cards

However, Windows operating system features ( such as the standard Summary tab in the Properties page for non-Office files ) and Windows applications are using them more often now, and Microsoft was developing a next-generation file system that has this sort of feature as basis.

This was a significant development as Microsoft had been lobbying to have their codec used with the next DVD standard.

The SAG standardization efforts presented an opportunity for Microsoft to adapt their Jet system to the new CLI standard.

For example, Microsoft documents their standard format to store M-JPEG in AVI files, Apple documents how M-JPEG is stored in QuickTime files, RFC 2435 describes how M-JPEG is implemented in an RTP stream, and an M-JPEG CodecID is planned for the Matroska file format.