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

Examples of applications often classified as applets are all of the accessories bundled in Microsoft Windows ( such as Windows Notepad or Microsoft Paint ).

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.

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

* Active Directory, a component of Microsoft Windows that provides distributed user management and authentication

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.

Microsoft dropped support for APM in Windows Vista.

Operating systems such as Microsoft Windows that display hard drive sizes using the customary binary prefix " GB " ( as it is used for RAM ) would display this as 279. 4 GB ( meaning 279. 4 × 1024 < sup > 3 </ sup >, or 279. 4 ×).

* Browser service, a feature of Microsoft Windows to let users browse and locate shared resources in neighboring computers

* Microsoft Windows contains application compatibility shims to make the platform compatible with most software from earlier 32-bit and 16-bit versions ( e. g. Civilization ( circa 1991, designed for Windows 3. 0 ) running on Windows Vista ).

** With the introduction of Windows 7 ( Business, Ultimate, or Enterprise editions ), Windows XP Mode enables full compatibility with older programs supported under Windows XP via Microsoft Virtual PC.

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.

It has been ported to Microsoft Windows and distributed with Cygwin and MinGW, to DOS by the DJGPP project, to Novell NetWare and to Android via various terminal emulation applications.

* Bill Gates deposition video at Microsoft on August 27, 1998 ( Windows Media, Ogg Theora and Ogg Vorbis formats )

** Microsoft Exchange server Streaming Media File

Microsoft developed a media player known as ActiveMovie in 1995 that allowed streaming media and included a proprietary streaming format, which was the precursor to the streaming feature later in Windows Media Player 6. 4 in 1999.

Windows Media Audio ( WMA ) is an audio data compression technology developed by Microsoft.

The first WMA codec was based on earlier work by Henrique Malvar and his team which was transferred to the Windows Media team at Microsoft.

The Microsoft Zune media management software supports most WMA codecs, but uses a variation of Windows Media DRM which is used by PlaysForSure.

On the Macintosh platform, Microsoft released a PowerPC version of Windows Media Player for Mac OS X in 2003, but further development of the software has ceased.

Software that can export audio in WMA format include Windows Media Player, Windows Movie Maker, Microsoft Expression Encoder, Sony Sound Forge, GOM Player, RealPlayer, Adobe Premiere Pro, Adobe Audition, and Adobe Soundbooth.

Microsoft Office OneNote supports encoding in all WMA codecs, and Windows Media Encoder supports all available bit rate and resolution options as well.

* Windows Media Video – A video file format and codec developed by Microsoft

* Windows Media homepage at Microsoft

* Media Foundation Transform, a media processing plugin filter model in Microsoft Media Foundation

Windows Media Player ( abbreviated WMP ) is a media player and media library application developed by Microsoft that is used for playing audio, video and viewing images on personal computers running the Microsoft Windows operating system, as well as on Pocket PC and Windows Mobile-based devices.

In 1995, Microsoft released ActiveMovie with DirectX Media SDK.

Windows Media Player 12 was released with Microsoft Windows 7.

On April 16, 2012, Microsoft announced that Windows Media Player would not be included in Windows RT, the line of Windows designed to run on ARM based devices.

Previously, Microsoft had released Windows Media Connect for Windows XP to stream media content with its built-in UPnP media server.

Microsoft has also released versions of Windows Media Player for other platforms including Windows Mobile, Mac OS, Mac OS X, Palm-size PC, Handheld PC, and Solaris.

Media Player 10 Mobile is not available as a download from Microsoft ; distribution is done solely through OEM partners, and is typically included on devices based on Windows Mobile.

Version 9 was the final version of Windows Media Player to be released for Mac OS X before development was cancelled by Microsoft.

It was developed by the Windows Media team at Microsoft instead of the Macintosh Business Unit and released in 2003.

* Managed code such as Microsoft. NET Common Intermediate Language, executed by the. NET Common Language Runtime ( CLR )

* Concurrency and Coordination Runtime, from the Microsoft Robotics Developer Studio

* Common Language Runtime, the virtual machine component of Microsoft. NET

It runs on Microsoft Windows, Linux and Mac OS X via the Java Runtime Environment.

This is not the case with the JScript. NET command-line compiler, since this next-generation version relies on the. NET Common Language Runtime ( CLR ) for execution, which requires that the code be compiled to Common Intermediate Language ( CIL ), formerly called Microsoft Intermediate Language ( MSIL ), code before it can be run.

One modern example of dependency hell on Microsoft Windows and Mac OS X is the Gecko Runtime Engine, or GRE, used by Mozilla projects.

* Concurrency and Coordination Runtime, from the Microsoft Robotics Developer Studio

Managed code is a term coined by Microsoft to identify computer program source code that requires and will only execute under the management of a Common Language Runtime virtual machine ( resulting in bytecode ).

For Microsoft Windows the user can get a package of popular themes from the GTK + for Windows Runtime Environment page.