1-2-3 was used to test general application compatibility, with Microsoft Flight Simulator being used to test graphics compatibility.

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.

It was also well known as the default takeoff field in many early versions of the popular Microsoft Flight Simulator software program.

Meigs is the default airport for the Microsoft Flight Simulator series until Microsoft Flight Simulator 2004, though the airport remains operational in Flight Simulator 2004.

Gainax has periodically attempted to restart Aoki Uru, such as releasing a 1998 CD with storyboards, a script, and several hundred pieces of art, and a 2000 release of a mod to Microsoft Flight Simulator.

Microsoft Flight Simulator ( often abbreviated as MSFS or FS ) is a series of flight simulator programs, marketed as video games, for the Microsoft Windows operating system.

Microsoft Flight Simulator may be the longest-running PC game series of all time.

In 1982, Artwick's company licensed a version of Flight Simulator for the IBM PC to Microsoft, which marketed it as Microsoft Flight Simulator 1. 00.

Microsoft Flight Simulator began as a set of articles written by Bruce Artwick in 1976 about a 3D computer graphics program.

In 1980, subLOGIC released a version for the TRS-80, and in 1982 they licensed an IBM PC version with CGA graphics to Microsoft which was released as Microsoft Flight Simulator 1. 00.

Meanwhile, Bruce Artwick left subLOGIC and founded The Bruce Artwick Organization to continue his work on subsequent Microsoft releases, beginning with Microsoft Flight Simulator 3. 0 in 1988.

Microsoft Flight Simulator reached commercial maturity with version 3. 1, and went on to encompass the use of 3D graphics and graphic hardware acceleration.

The two latest versions of Microsoft Flight Simulator have a " kiosk mode ", which allows the application to be run in electronic kiosks located in public places like shopping malls.

Microsoft Flight Simulator has a wide selection of upgrades and add-ons, both free and commercial, official and fan-made.

The " RailDriver " for example is designed to work with Trainz, Microsoft Train Simulator and Kuju Rail Simulator.

Shelby appears as the eastern terminus of the Marias Pass route available on Microsoft Train Simulator 1.

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.

EFI booting has been supported in only Microsoft Windows versions supporting GPT, the Linux kernel 2. 6. 1 and later, and Mac OS X on Intel-based Macs.

; Allegro Common Lisp: for Microsoft Windows, FreeBSD, Linux, Apple Mac OS X and various UNIX variants.

; LispWorks: for Microsoft Windows, FreeBSD, Linux, Apple Mac OS X and various UNIX variants.

; CLISP: A bytecode-compiling implementation, portable and runs on a number of Unix and Unix-like systems ( including Mac OS X ), as well as Microsoft Windows and several other systems.

Some of the more poorly-designed programs can be shut down by killing their processes: for example, in Microsoft Windows through the Windows Task Manager, or in Mac OS X using Force Quit or Activity Monitor.

* Microsoft Silverlight, an implementation for use in web browsers-for Microsoft Windows and Mac OS X.

* On a computer running Microsoft Windows, Mac OS X, or Unix running the X Window System, clicking the secondary mouse button ( usually the right button ) opens a context menu for the region that is under the mouse pointer.

Diacritics can be composed in most X Window System keyboard layouts, as well as other operating systems, such as Microsoft Windows, using additional software.

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.

* Open Dylan-Host of two open source, optimizing Dylan compilers targeting Unix / Linux, Mac OS X, and Microsoft Windows

OpenEuphoria is currently available for Microsoft Windows, Linux, OS X and three flavors of * BSD.

* Ultra Fractal-A proprietary fractal generator for Microsoft Windows and Mac OS X based systems

Originally developed on IRIX, Freeciv has been ported to many different operating systems: it is distributed with many Linux distributions, offers installers for Microsoft Windows, and has been known to run on Mac OS X, Solaris, Ultrix, QNX, OS / 2, Cygwin, AmigaOS, RISC OS, Maemo, ZETA, SkyOS and various BSDs.

The original GLUT library by Mark Kilgard supports the X Window System ( GLX ) and was ported to Microsoft Windows ( WGL ) by Nate Robins.

Irssi ( ( audio ) is an IRC client program for Linux, FreeBSD, Microsoft Windows, and Mac OS X.

There are software-based emulators for the System / 370, System / 390, and System z hardware, including FLEX-ES and the freely available Hercules emulator which runs under Linux, FreeBSD, Solaris, Mac OS X and Microsoft Windows.

Empirical tests with a 4. 2 GB fragmented file on a DVD media have shown that Microsoft Windows XP supports this, while Mac OS X ( as of 10. 4. 8 ) does not handle this case properly.

While most modern IDEs are graphical, IDEs in use before the advent of windowing systems ( such as Microsoft Windows or X Window System ( X11 )) were text-based, using function keys or hotkeys to perform various tasks ( Turbo Pascal is a common example ).

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.

* On modern systems, Mac OS X Snow Leopard represents a 65, 536 byte file as " 66 KB ", rounding to the nearest 1000, while Microsoft Windows 7 would divide by 1024 and represent this as " 64 KB ".

* µTorrent, a freeware BitTorrent client for Microsoft Windows and Mac OS X

MySQL works on many different system platforms, including AIX, BSDi, FreeBSD, HP-UX, eComStation, i5 / OS, IRIX, Linux, Mac OS X, Microsoft Windows, NetBSD, Novell NetWare, OpenBSD, OpenSolaris, OS / 2 Warp, QNX, Solaris, Symbian, SunOS, SCO OpenServer, SCO UnixWare, Sanos and Tru64.

For instance, design and creation of Microsoft Word software will take much more time than designing and developing Microsoft Notepad because of the difference in functionalities in each one.

For example, text in Microsoft Word will be rendered on the screen with ClearType enhancement, but text placed in a bitmapped image in a program such as Adobe Photoshop will not be modified.

Microsoft announced that they have discontinued the separate release of WinFS for Windows XP and Windows Vista and will gradually incorporate the technologies developed for WinFS in other products and technologies, notably Microsoft SQL Server.

Microsoft has said that Windows Server 2012 was available on 4 September 2012 and Windows 8 will be available on October 26, 2012.

The only clear-set rule is that ESRB AO-rated games will not be licensed on Nintendo consoles in North America, a practice which is also enforced by Sony and Microsoft, its two greatest competitors in the present market.

It is unlikely that the entire OS will be open at some point in the future, because it contains third-party code, much of it from Microsoft.

On 5 January 2010, a senior manager of the Internet Explorer team at Microsoft announced on his official blog that Microsoft had just requested to join the SVG Working Group of the W3C in order to " take part in ensuring future versions of the SVG spec will meet the needs of developers and end users ," although no plans for SVG support in Internet Explorer were mentioned at that time.

However, the scripting engine will continue to be shipped with future releases of Microsoft Windows and IIS.

An in-kernel web server ( like TUX on GNU / Linux or Microsoft IIS on Windows ) will usually work faster, because, as part of the system, it can directly use all the hardware resources it needs, such as non-paged memory, CPU time-slices, network adapters, or buffers.

One typical difference between package management in proprietary operating systems, such as Mac OS X and Windows, and those in free and open source software, such as Linux, is that free and open source software systems permit third-party packages to also be installed and upgraded through the same mechanism, whereas the package management systems of Mac OS X and Windows will only upgrade software provided by Apple and Microsoft, respectively ( with the exception of some third party drivers in Windows ).

Microsoft will soon turn Yahoo into its prison bitch, and this won ’ t be pretty.

The barcode can be printed by the person who sends the mail ( some word-processing programs such as WordPerfect and Microsoft Word include the feature ), or the post office will put one on when it processes the piece.

Microsoft claims that SharePoint Workspace will make it easier to access SharePoint content ( or content from any server that implements the publicly documented protocols ).

: The [...] most important benefit for Microsoft is that TC will dramatically increase the costs of switching away from Microsoft products ( such as Office ) to rival products ( such as OpenOffice ).

The law firm won't in practice want to do this, so they will be much more tightly locked in, which will enable Microsoft to hike its prices.

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 ".

Architecture of NGSCB A complete Microsoft-based Trusted Computing-enabled system will consist not only of software components developed by Microsoft but also of hardware components developed by the Trusted Computing Group.

Microsoft is no longer making claims that NGSCB will solve these virus problems.

In December 2005, the Microsoft corporation announced that MCI will join it by providing Windows Live Messenger customers " Voice Over Internet Protocol " ( VoIP ) service to make telephone calls.