Microsoft focuses on selling Windows 7 Home Premium and Professional.

** Microsoft BASIC Home Computer Module ( G7420 ) – Similar to above, with the purpose of converting the G7400 into a " real " computer, not compatible with G7000.

Corel Office ( also called Corel Home Office ) is designed to be compatible with Microsoft Office.

* Home page at Microsoft Research

It was published in the Microsoft Home series of software.

* Microsoft Home

* " Microsoft TechNet-Exchange Server Home "

The last Classic release, 1. 6. 7. 35, functions properly with Microsoft Internet Explorer 6, 7 and 8 on Microsoft Windows XP Home, XP Professional, and all releases of Windows Vista and Windows 7.

TI BASIC was a dialect of BASIC for the Texas Instruments TI-99 / 4A Home Computer ( 1981 ), developed under contract to Microsoft by Bob Wallace and Bob Greenberg.

* Windows Server Solutions, A SDK for developing for Microsoft Windows Home Server and Small Business Server

's Messenger and Music Engine programs on the Microsoft Windows operating system 98, ME, 2000 Professional, XP ( Home and Professional ).

It is best known for its zip compression libraries and data grid controls, used by Microsoft in Microsoft Office 2007, Visual Studio Team System 2010, Windows Home Server and Flight Simulator among others.

For Microsoft Windows, a common approach is to install a version that contains the Windows Media Center ( Home Premium, Professional or Ultimate for Windows 7, Home Premium or Ultimate for Windows Vista, or the older Windows XP Media Center Edition ).

* Microsoft Research Home Page

* How to Configure a Direct Cable Connection with Windows XP Home Edition ( PART 1 ) from Microsoft Help and Support

Microsoft Space Simulator was released by Microsoft Home in 1994.

The first version of Microsoft Money dates back to 1991 and was originally part of the Microsoft Home series.

* Microsoft Research-Social Computing Group Home

Both the Corsicana, Texas and a new R & D facility in San Diego remained opened within Midway and continued to employ Byron Cook ( who became president of Midway Home Entertainment ) and John Rowe ( who became Vice-Chairman and Director of Product Development ) developing and publishing games for Nintendo Game Cube, Microsoft X Box, Sony Playstation and the PC.

BeOS PE could be started from within Microsoft Windows or Linux, and was intended to nurture consumer interest in its product and give developers something to tinker with.

The trial started on May 18, 1998 with the U. S. Justice Department and the Attorneys General of twenty U. S. states suing Microsoft for illegally thwarting competition in order to protect and extend its software monopoly.

Given these issues, Microsoft started to work in parallel on a version of Windows which was more future-oriented and more portable.

In response to a submission from Arbortext, Inso, and Microsoft, a W3C working group on XSL started operating in December 1997, with Sharon Adler and Steve Zilles as co-chairs, with James Clark acting as editor ( and unofficially as chief designer ), and Chris Lilley as the W3C staff contact.

Students from computer science faculty started few times in CSIDC computer systems projecting world championships organised by IEEE Computer Society and ImagineCup ( Microsoft ).

As a creation of the mid-1970s, with no constraints to be compatible with earlier operating systems, VME is in many ways more modern in its architecture than today's Unix derivatives ( Unix was designed in the 1960s ) or Microsoft Windows ( which started as an operating system for single-user computers, and still betrays those origins ).

Initially started as a project within Apple inc to provide a replacement for the Mac OS, it was later spun off into a joint venture with IBM, for the purpose of building a competing platform to Microsoft Cairo and NeXTSTEP, as part of the AIM alliance.

In 1996 it acquired Novell WordPerfect and started competing with the thought of being " Pepsi to Microsoft's Coke " as Microsoft Word was the top-used word processing software at the time.

In June, in a sign of continuing trouble at MSNBC, Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer said that he would not have started MSNBC if he knew then what he knows now.

Because the main client used to access the service became known as Windows Live Messenger, Microsoft started referring to the entire service as the Windows Live Messenger Service in its support documentation in the mid-2000s.

In June 1999, Steve Perlman left Microsoft and started Rearden, a business incubator for new companies in media and entertainment technology.

The model started to shift, however, in 2006 and since the XML standard Microsoft has been earning a better reputation within the open-source and open-standards community.

The event started off with a twist when the main keynote address by Microsoft chairman Bill Gates went wrong, as his demonstration of Windows Media Center resulted in a Blue Screen of Death, much to the amusement of the onlookers.

Jobs believed that Apple had started to license clones too late to repeat the business model pioneered by Microsoft in the early 1980s.

Microsoft merged the SMB protocol with the LAN Manager product which it had started developing for OS / 2 with 3Com c. 1990, and continued to add features to the protocol in Windows for Workgroups ( c. 1992 ) and in later versions of Windows.

Eventually the only other company with a 3D focus was Microsoft, and the Fahrenheit project started and ended shortly after the OpenGL ++ efforts.

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.

At about the same time, IBM proposed something called the HyperText Printing Protocol ( HTPP ), and both HP and Microsoft had started work on new print services for what became MS Windows 2000.

Expedia was started by Microsoft and later spun off as a multi-billion dollar company because it was " no longer about software intensive technology " and they were " concerned that they would not do their best at this.

The 2005 Sony BMG CD copy protection scandal started when security researcher Mark Russinovich revealed on October 31, 2005 that Sony's Extended Copy Protection copy protection software on the CD Get Right with the Man by Van Zant contained hidden files that could damage the operating system, install spyware and make the user's computer vulnerable to attack when the CD was played on a Microsoft Windows-based PC.

; European Union v. Microsoft: In 2001 the European Union, through the DG Competition of the European Commission ( led by Prof. Mario Monti ), started investigating Microsoft's dominant position in the desktop operating systems.

Microsoft Works started life as Mouseworks, an integrated spreadsheet, word processor and database program, designed for the Macintosh by ex-Apple alumni Don Williams and Rupert Lissner.

Microsoft has subsequently started offering Works SE in a limited set of countries ( United States, France, Canada, Poland and the United Kingdom ) with little marketing to back it up, due to its being primarily a pilot project as of April 2008.

Microsoft doesn't recommend using DirectInput for keyboards or mice, and has started pushing the newer XInput for Xbox 360 controllers.