Many books of type-in programs were also available, and in particular, Ahl published versions of the original 101 BASIC games converted into the Microsoft dialect and published it from Creative Computing as " BASIC Computer Games ".

At the same time, Microsoft Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Access and OneNote, both 2007 and 2010, are also backward compatible with their 97-2003 file formats and features in the same manner.

The " smooth curve " feature of charts in Microsoft Excel also uses this algorithm.

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Toolsets like Microsoft Windows Services for UNIX ( SFU ), UWIN, MKS Toolkit for Enterprise Developers and Hamilton C shell also aim to provide a Unix-like user and development environment.

For instance, Microsoft Word files are normally created and modified by the Microsoft Word program in response to user commands, but the user can also move, rename, or delete these files directly by using a file manager program such as Windows Explorer ( on Windows computers ) or by command lines ( CLI ).

In Microsoft Office 2007 and later versions, Internet Explorer 7 and later versions and Windows Live Messenger, ClearType is also turned on by default, even if it is not enabled throughout the operating system.

According to MSDN website, Microsoft acknowledges that " ext that is rendered with ClearType can also appear significantly different when viewed by individuals with varying levels of color sensitivity.

It was also licensed to IBM by Microsoft, and marketed by them as PC-DOS.

Internet Explorer slows down GIFs if the frame-rate is 20 frames per second or higher and Microsoft reports that Google Chrome and Safari also slow down some GIF animations.

The Microsoft User Manual from Microsoft Press also refers to it by this name.

Microsoft is also working to bring Windows NT onto ARM in the next release of Windows.

Later Microsoft also released Windows 3. 11, a touch-up to Windows 3. 1 which included all of the patches and updates that followed the release of Windows 3. 1 in 1992.

DEC also believed he brought Mica's code to Microsoft and sued.

At the Professional Developers Conference ( PDC ) 2008, Microsoft also announced Windows Server 2008 R2, as the server variant of Windows 7.

The first public preview of Windows Server 2012 was also shown by Microsoft at the 2011 Microsoft Worldwide Partner Conference.

For example, Microsoft's Outlook client uses a proprietary protocol to communicate with a Microsoft Exchange Server server as does IBM's Notes client when communicating with a Domino server, but all of these products also support POP, IMAP, and outgoing SMTP.

This allows KDE software based on Qt 4 to also be distributed to Microsoft Windows and.

While the original Karaoke Revolution was also eventually released for the Microsoft Xbox console in late 2004, the new online-enabled version included the ability to download additional song packs through the console's exclusive Xbox Live service.

" Friends from Microsoft and Apple also helped him with research.

Mac OS X v10. 6 also features Microsoft Exchange Server support for Mail, iCal, and Address Book, new 64-bit technology capable of supporting greater amounts of RAM, an all new QuickTime X with a refreshed user interface and more functionality that used to be only available to QuickTime Pro owners.

Its first product was Turbo Pascal in 1983, developed by Anders Hejlsberg ( who later developed. NET and C # for Microsoft ) and before Borland acquired the product sold in Scandinavia under the name of Compas Pascal.

It was originally written for Seattle Computer Products's 86-DOS ( QDOS ), which Microsoft acquired and sold as MS-DOS.

In hindsight, Cairo was a much more difficult project than Microsoft had anticipated and, as a result, NT and Chicago would not be unified until Windows XP — albeit Windows 2000, oriented to business, had already unified most of the system ’ s bolts and gears, it was XP that was sold to home consumers like Windows 95 and came to be viewed as the final unified OS.

Many companies sold TCP / IP stacks for Windows until Microsoft released its own TCP / IP stack in Windows 95.

As most computers were sold with Microsoft Windows pre-installed and the price was less, " Red Spine " was the more popular product.

He sold 68 million shares of Microsoft stock that year, but still owns a reported 138 million shares.

Touchscreens are becoming popular with the introduction of palmtop computers like those sold by the Palm, Inc. hardware manufacturer, some high range classes of laptop computers, mobile smartphones like HTC or the Apple Inc. iPhone, and the availability of standard touchscreen device drivers into the Symbian, Palm OS, Mac OS X, and Microsoft Windows operating systems.

Additionally, Microsoft sold Windows 2000 Advanced Server Limited Edition and Windows 2000 Datacenter Server Limited Edition, which ran on 64-bit Intel Itanium microprocessors and they were released in 2001.

During this time Netscape was sold to AOL and this was seen as Netscape ’ s official loss to Microsoft in the browser wars.

Employees were laid off without pay, and the company's game brands and other intellectual properties were sold to rivals like Microsoft, Namco, Crave and Ubisoft, and also to founder Trip Hawkins, who paid $ 405, 000 for rights to some old brands and the company's " Internet patent portfolio ".

Bettman was later sold to Microsoft founder Bill Gates's separate Corbis Corporation, which continues to control the images of UPI and its predecessor agencies, storing them underground in Pennsylvania and digitizing them for licensing, frequently without any notation of their UPI origins.

Though IBM still had rights to HPFS, their agreement with Microsoft to continue licensing the HPFS386 version is contingent upon them paying Microsoft a licensing fee for each copy sold.

Only two games that sold a significant volume, Lego Island and Lego Rock Raiders, were based on the Direct3D retained mode, so Microsoft did not update the retained mode after DirectX 3. 0.

QPW 5 sold well also, though the Microsoft Excel + Word combination was gaining steam.

, Microsoft still dominates the market for Windows business application software, although Quattro Pro and WordPerfect, which pre-dated the MS Office 4. 2 suite, are still both updated and sold.

As part of the deal, 882 patents owned by Novell are planned to be sold to CPTN Holdings LLC, a consortium of companies led by Microsoft

Microsoft bought 86-DOS, adapted it for computers using the Intel 8086 and 8088 processors, and called it MS-DOS ; IBM sold it for the IBM PC as PC DOS.

Microsoft Entourage, sold as part of Microsoft Office for Macintosh, has replaced the Macintosh version.

* 2003 — Microsoft Office FrontPage 2003 ( version 11 ): Not included in any of the Office 2003 editions, sold separately.

* Microsoft Project, a project-management software program developed and sold by Microsoft

With more than five million copies sold worldwide as of November 9, 2005, Microsoft released versions of the game for Microsoft Windows ( ported by Gearbox Software ) and Mac OS X in 2003, and the surrounding storyline was adapted and elaborated into a series of novels and comic books.