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.

Microsoft also sold a BASIC compiler, BASCOM, compatible with GW-BASIC, for programs needing more speed.

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.

One observed method Microsoft uses to put the network effect to its advantage is called Embrace, extend and extinguish.

On Microsoft Windows, SDL uses a GDI backend by default.

Vassal is in turn an outgrowth of the VASL ( Virtual ASL ) project, and uses Java, making it accessible to any computer that can run a modern JVM, while the other three are Microsoft Windows programs.

as does Apple, though Microsoft uses both " website " and " web site ".

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

Microsoft currently endorses the third-party Flip4Mac WMA, a QuickTime component that allows Macintosh users to play WMA files in any player that uses the QuickTime framework.

The vfat filesystem driver provides long filename support using the same disk data structures that Microsoft Windows uses for VFAT long filename support on FAT format volumes, but it does not support any extra Unix file semantics.

Therefore, if a computer enthusiast somehow has 20 computers at home which he uses himself for software development ( and aren't acting as part of a business, for example, a server farm ), one subscription allows all 20 of those computers to be running their own separate copy of Windows, Office, and any other Microsoft product.

As the Mono development platform intends to be binary compatible with Microsoft. NET, it uses the same PE format as the Microsoft implementation.

Created in 1998 by UserLand Software and Microsoft, XML-RPC is a remote procedure call protocol which uses XML to encode its calls and HTTP as a transport mechanism.

For instance, Microsoft Windows uses the API functions < tt > LoadLibrary </ tt >, < tt > LoadLibraryEx </ tt >, < tt > FreeLibrary </ tt > and < tt > GetProcAddress </ tt > with Microsoft Dynamic Link Libraries ; POSIX based systems, including most UNIX and UNIX-like systems, use < tt > dlopen </ tt >, < tt > dlclose </ tt > and < tt > dlsym </ tt >.

Microsoft Outlook uses a proprietary datastore file and interface which are impossible to read without being parsed, and such parsers may in turn not be able to exist legally without performing reverse engineering.

Windows Server 2003 uses the range 1025 to 5000 by default, until Microsoft security update MS08-037 from 2008 is installed, after which it uses the IANA range by default.

For instance, Microsoft Windows on x86-64 uses the GS segment to point to the Thread Environment Block, a small data structure for each thread, which contains information about exception handling, thread-local variables, and other per-thread state.

This is another variant of the original Melissa macro virus, and is akin to Melissa. U. It uses Microsoft Outlook, and tries to send itself to the first 40 addresses in Outlook's address book.

* Microsoft Windows uses GUIDs internally to identify the classes and interfaces of COM objects.

Microsoft uses port number 2869 for event notification and event subscriptions.

The Microsoft implementation uses single DES in the MS-CHAP authentication protocol which many find unsuitable for data protection needs.

Sonic Heroes uses the RenderWare engine so that the game could be programmed and ported easily to the GameCube, PlayStation 2, Xbox, and Microsoft Windows.

" So, for example, Microsoft uses MVP to mean Most Valuable Professional.