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.

All major software companies, such as Microsoft, Novell and Sun Microsystems, have their own software testing departments with the specific goal of just testing.

On 25 April 2003 Microsoft launched Windows Server 2003, a notable update to Windows 2000 Server encompassing many new security features, a new " Manage Your Server " wizard that simplifies configuring a machine for specific roles, and improved performance.

Initially it is impossible to find any mention of specific bugs on Microsoft's website, but later he notices that Microsoft has instated a system similar to the Debian one, though sugar-coated so as to not ruin the vision demanded by its customers.

* Microsoft is a proper name, referring to a specific company.

Microsoft's MSDN license agreement makes a specific exception for Microsoft Office, allowing the subscription holder to personally use it for business purposes without needing a separate license — but only with the " MSDN Premium Subscription " and even so only " directly related to the design, development and test and / or documentation of software projects " as stated in the MSDN licensing FAQ.

In terms of naming, a hard disk image for a certain Virtual Machine monitor has a specific file type extension, e. g.,. vmdk for VMware VMDK,. vhd for Xen and Microsoft Hyper-V,. vdi for Oracle VM VirtualBox, etc.

Direct3D 6. 0 also included support for features that had been licensed by Microsoft from specific hardware vendors for inclusion in the API, in exchange for the time-to-market advantage to the licensing vendor.

Microsoft's version numbering identifies the specific release and revision of Microsoft software products.

It has specific builds for a variety of operating systems including Microsoft Windows, Mac OS X, Linux, IRIX, and Solaris.

Microsoft Office Outlook and Microsoft Exchange use a proprietary e-mail attachment format called Transport Neutral Encapsulation Format ( TNEF ) to handle formatting and other features specific to Outlook such as meeting requests.

The following code page numbers are specific to Microsoft Windows.

The term is largely specific to Unix and Unix-like systems ; for Microsoft Windows operating systems the equivalent term is " Bug check " ( or, colloquially, " Blue Screen of Death ").

Many popular word processors, such as Microsoft Word, WordPerfect, and StarWriter are capable of automatically generating a table of contents if the author of the text uses specific styles for chapter titles, headings, subheadings, etc.

They can be recognized easily as Microsoft CAB files since all CAB files have a specific marker at the beginning of the file's code, identifying the file format.

On May 18, 2008, News. com reported that Microsoft had confirmed that current versions of Windows Media Center shipping with the Windows family of operating systems adhered to the use of the broadcast flag, following reports of users being blocked from taping specific airings of NBC programs, mainly American Gladiators and Medium.

The Alexa Toolbar is an application produced by Alexa Internet, and is a Firefox extension and Browser Helper Object for Internet Explorer on Microsoft Windows that is used by Alexa to measure website specific statistics.

However, using a screen reader is, according to some users, considerably more difficult than using a GUI and many applications have specific problems resulting from the nature of the application ( e. g. animations in Macromedia Flash ) or failure to comply with accessibility standards for the platform ( e. g. Microsoft Word and Active Accessibility ).

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.

Proprietary options have the longest history, and include products from the inception of Message Queuing, such as IBM's WebSphere MQ ( formerly MQ Series ), and those tied to specific operating systems, such as Microsoft Message Queuing.

In Apple v. Microsoft, the courts established that a look and feel copyright claim must demonstrate that specific elements of a user interface infringe on another work.

The Microsoft XNA Framework 2. 0 EULA specifically prohibits the distribution of commercial networked games that connect to Xbox Live and / or Games for Windows Live in the absence of a specific agreement signed by both the developer and Microsoft.

Depending on the specific operating system in use ( notably in Linux and Microsoft Windows ) and the routing mechanisms installed, this populates the routing table of the local system with an entry so that packets destined to any address from the < tt > 127. 0. 0. 0 / 8 </ tt > block would be routed internally to the network loopback device.

Many graphical user interfaces ( GUIs ), including Mac OS, Microsoft Windows, or the X Window System, are primarily based on 2D graphical concepts.

At the same time, there was increasing use of GUIs in non-UNIX operating systems: the Apple Macintosh was released in early 1984, followed by Microsoft Windows 1. 0 and Amiga Workbench in 1985.

* Application Foundation Classes, a graphical framework for building Java-based graphical user interfaces ( GUIs ), developed by Microsoft

Reportedly it intrigued many people at Microsoft, including Bill Gates, who by some accounts based his first version of Windows on DESQview and two other early GUIs, Visi On and GEM.

With the release of. NET 3. 0, Microsoft released a second API for rendering GUIs: Windows Presentation Foundation ( WPF ), together with a GUI declarative language called XAML.

* Competition from rival tools for building GUIs to databases, such as Microsoft Visual Basic, Microsoft Access and Delphi, reduced PowerBuilder's market share.