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.

Applesoft BASIC was supplied by Microsoft and its name is derived from the names of both Apple and Microsoft.

* 2000 – United States v. Microsoft: Microsoft is ruled to have violated United States antitrust laws by keeping " an oppressive thumb " on its competitors.

Advanced power management ( APM ) is an API developed by Intel and Microsoft and released in 1992 which enables an operating system running an IBM-compatible personal computer to work with the BIOS ( part of the computer's firmware ) to achieve power management.

BadTrans is a malicious Microsoft Windows computer worm distributed by e-mail.

Because of a known vulnerability in older versions of Internet Explorer, some e-mail programs, such as Microsoft's Outlook Express and Microsoft Outlook programs, may install and execute the worm as soon as the e-mail message is viewed.

Software quality is very important, especially for commercial and system software like Microsoft Office, Microsoft Windows and Linux.

Software is usually designed and created ( coded / written / programmed ) in integrated development environments ( IDE ) like Eclipse, Emacs and Microsoft Visual Studio that can simplify the process and compile the program.

For instance, JavaBeans library is used for designing enterprise applications, Windows Forms library is used for designing graphical user interface ( GUI ) applications like Microsoft Word, and Windows Communication Foundation is used for designing web services.

For instance, if a user is designing a Microsoft Windows desktop application, he / she might use the. NET Windows Forms library to design the desktop application and call its APIs like Form1. Close () and Form1. Show () to close or open the application and write the additional operations him / herself that it need to have.

* What is an Input Method Editor and how do I use it ?, a Microsoft article about Windows XP's Input Method Editor.

Cygwin ( ) is a Unix-like environment and command-line interface for Microsoft Windows.

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.

Winelib, a part of the Wine project, is the inverse of Cygwin-it is a free and open source compatibility layer for Unix-like operating systems on the x86 or x86-64 architecture that can allow programs written for Microsoft Windows to run on Unix-like operating systems.

The Common Language Infrastructure ( CLI ) is an open specification developed by Microsoft and standardized by ISO and ECMA that describes the executable code and runtime environment that form the core of the Microsoft. NET Framework and the free and open source implementations Mono and Portable. NET.

Microsoft wanted to further develop Windows, while IBM desired for future work to be based on OS / 2.

The porting of Maya to Linux, Mac OS X and Microsoft Windows further eroded the low end of SGI's product line.

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.

Adrian Ettlinger, using Don Woods ' solver, has used the same random hand generator as Microsoft Windows FreeCell to explore a further 10 million games.

* Edges and corners of the computer monitor ( e. g., the location of the Start button and Taskbar in Microsoft Windows, and the menus and Dock of Mac OS X ) are particularly easy to acquire with a mouse, touchpad or trackball because the pointer remains at the screen edge regardless of how much further the mouse is moved, thus can be considered as having infinite width.

When Microsoft eventually lost interest in OS / 2 as well, it based its further high-end strategy on Windows NT.

DR later created an MS-DOS clone with advanced features called DR-DOS, which pressured Microsoft to further improve its own DOS.

Although a costly settlement to Microsoft, this eliminated the most damning evidence of Microsoft's anti-trust behaviors, and allowed Microsoft to control and dominate this sector of the marketplace without concerns about any further serious competitor.

On December 23, 2005, it was announced that NBC Universal would acquire an additional 32 % share of the television channel from Microsoft, solidifying its control over television operations and allowing NBC to further consolidate MSNBC's backroom operations with NBC News and its other cable properties.

On July 26, 2012, Microsoft cancelled further development of Flight.

Supporters further argue that IBM and Microsoft shifting standardization efforts from the W3C to OASIS is evidence this is already occurring.

Blue Mountain further expanded when Microsoft promoted its service on its free Hotmail service.

The system was purchased by Microsoft and developed further as MS-DOS and PC DOS.

" Their value was further eroded by aggressive bundling deals from Microsoft that could allow Word, Excel and PowerPoint to be purchased for a cost not much higher than MacWrite alone, a bundle that Claris did not match.

Text mining methods and software is also being researched and developed by major firms, including IBM and Microsoft, to further automate the mining and analysis processes, and by different firms working in the area of search and indexing in general as a way to improve their results.

At around the time when Sun Microsystems announced WebNFS, Microsoft launched an initiative in 1996 to rename SMB to Common Internet File System ( CIFS ), and added more features, including support for symbolic links, hard links, larger file sizes, and an initial attempt at supporting direct connections over TCP port 445 without requiring NetBIOS as a transport ( a largely experimental effort that required further refinement ).

It may therefore imply not only that Microsoft has vastly greater funds to draw on, but that it has greedily abused that fact to further its own position in the marketplace ; it also highlights the difference between the purely commercial development of Internet Explorer, and the new community-driven development of Netscape / Mozilla.

3Com and Microsoft would develop the LAN Manager software and protocol to further this new market.

Subsequently, IDL was further expanded and ported to several variants of Unix, VMS, Linux, Microsoft Windows ( 1992 ), and Mac OS ( 1994 ).

The new version has not only been developed further beyond earlier versions, but has been ported from now obsolete v5. 02 of Borland C ++ to Microsoft Visual Studio 2008, a major undertaking in itself.

Novell further asked the Court to find that SCO had breached the agreements by signing Unix license agreements with Sun Microsystems and Microsoft without paying Novell the agreed percentage of those agreements.

Microsoft also declined a further cash injection.

SmartMove looks for existing Microsoft Windows installations on the machine, looks a little further for individual users, and offers to transfer application settings to analogous programs under Linux.