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.

Microsoft Publisher has a " Pack and Go " feature that bundles a publisher document, together with all external links, into a CAB file with a. PUZ extension.

The Macintosh Performa series added various software bundles including ClarisWorks, The New Grolier Multimedia Encyclopedia, Microsoft Bookshelf, Spectre VR and Power Pete.

On the computers that come with Microsoft Windows 7, Gateway bundles a large quantity of various software, including CyberLink Power 2 Go and the Gateway Game Console.

Software bundles usually included ClarisWorks, Quicken, a calendar / contact manager such as Touchbase and Datebook Pro, America Online, Apple's At Ease child-safe interface, educational software such as American Heritage Dictionary, The New Grolier Multimedia Encyclopedia, Microsoft Bookshelf ( on models equipped with a CD-Rom ), Mavis Beacon Teaches Typing, or Mario Teaches Typing, and games such as Spectre Challenger, Super Munchers, and Monopoly, all pre-installed over a slightly customized version of the Macintosh System software, denoted by a P in the version number ( e. g., System 7. 1P5 ).

Microsoft has also produced Windows Small Business Server and Windows Essential Business Server ( discontinued ), software bundles which includes a Windows Server operating system and some other Microsoft Servers products.

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.

Microsoft and 3Com worked together to create a simple network operating system which formed the base of 3Com's 3 + Share, Microsoft's LAN Manager and IBM's LAN Server-but none of these were particularly successful.

Microsoft stated that the merging of Microsoft Windows and Internet Explorer was the result of innovation and competition, that the two were now the same product and were inextricably linked together and that consumers were now getting all the benefits of IE for free.

It would have consisted of all Keen games packaged together for Microsoft Windows and Pocket PC, but it never got out of the planning stages, and was never even officially announced.

Microsoft ’ s. NET Common Language Infrastructure ( CLI ) specification allows code written in 40 + different programming languages to be combined together into a final product.

This event brought together a number of experts of various fields and included a presentation on GENA by Josh Cohen of Microsoft.

The operating system ( prominent examples being z / OS, Microsoft Windows, Mac OS X and Linux ), allows the parts of a computer to work together by performing tasks like transferring data between memory and disks or rendering output onto a display device.

Microsoft and Apple, who were highly competitive at the time, were unable to agree on common goals and did not work together.

Much of the original Fahrenheit project was abandoned, and Microsoft and SGI eventually gave up on attempts to work together.

By some accounts, Microsoft ties together Microsoft Windows, Internet Explorer, Windows Media Player, Outlook Express and Microsoft Office.

The Road Ahead is a book written by Bill Gates, co-founder and then-CEO of the Microsoft software company, together with Microsoft executive Nathan Myhrvold and journalist Peter Rinearson.

The ARB notes from that meeting note " SGI felt it was critical to work together with Microsoft, which had not been moving in compatible directions, to be able to build value-added products in the Windows environment.

For instance, Microsoft differentiates keyboard shortcuts from hotkeys ( mnemonics ) whereby the former consists of a specific key combination used to trigger an action, and the latter represents a designated letter in a menu command or toolbar button that when pressed together with the Alt key, activates such command.

The park houses offices of many major companies including the UK headquarters of BG group, Microsoft, ING direct and SGI together with offices of Oracle, Computacenter, David LLoyd, Cybersource, JP Executive Recruitment, Open Text, Regus, Websense and Worktube CV.

The release of Windows XP signalled a change of direction for Microsoft, bringing the consumer and business operating systems together.

Business applications often come in suites, e. g. Microsoft Office, OpenOffice. org and iWork, which bundle together a word processor, a spreadsheet, etc.

However, SCE Executive Tetsuhiko Yasuda does not consider Microsoft to be a competitor, and has said that they might consider working on games together.

This project later took on an expanded role when Apple and Microsoft agreed to work together to form an alternative to PostScript fonts, which were extremely expensive, creating the TrueType effort based on Apple's existing efforts.

On 12 July 2007, Australia ’ s first campus-based Microsoft Centre that brings together cutting edge hardware and software, opened at La Trobe University.