In 2009, researchers from Microsoft and North Carolina State University demonstrated a hypervisor-layer anti-rootkit called Hooksafe, which provides generic protection against kernel-mode rootkits.

Microsoft also demonstrated a unit with DVR capability, but this did not become available until the end of 1999 for full DVR features in Dish Network's DISHplayer receivers.

A follow-up meeting during 17 – 19 February 1997 demonstrated that there was considerable interest from most parties, with the exception of Microsoft and Sun, although there were concerns as to whether or not the ARB was the right body to support such an effort without diluting their primary job of supporting OpenGL.

WinFS ( short for Windows Future Storage ) is the code name for a cancelled data storage and management system project based on relational databases, developed by Microsoft and first demonstrated in 2003 as an advanced storage subsystem for the Microsoft Windows operating system, designed for persistence and management of structured, semi-structured as well as unstructured data.

A Microsoft Office Master who has also demonstrated their instructional ability via an independent qualification such as CompTIA's CTT +, or " Certified Technical Trainer ", an education-related degree or has considerable demonstrable classroom experience may also apply for, and obtain, the title of " Microsoft Master Instructor " ( MMI ).

Microsoft attempted to show that the judge's conduct during the case demonstrated that he unfairly favored the prosecution, but they failed to do so in court proceedings.

In 2009, researchers from Microsoft and North Carolina State University demonstrated a hypervisor-layer anti-rootkit called Hooksafe that can provide generic protection against kernel-mode rootkits.

Intergraph did work on a version of Microsoft Windows NT for Clipper systems and publicly demonstrated it, but this effort was canceled before release.

Microsoft has been contacted regarding this issue but has not demonstrated in their forums any will to include the dll.

** Microsoft demonstrated the power of new tools, renamed ActiveX

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.

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.

* On a computer running Microsoft Windows, Mac OS X, or Unix running the X Window System, clicking the secondary mouse button ( usually the right button ) opens a context menu for the region that is under the mouse pointer.

However, the battle was in vain, as neither platform captured a significant share of the world computer market and only the Apple Macintosh would survive the industry-wide shift to Microsoft Windows running on PC clones.

Screenshot of Frost running on Microsoft Windows

Multiplan was released first for computers running CP / M ; it was developed using a Microsoft proprietary p-code C compiler as part of a portability strategy that facilitated ports to systems such as MS-DOS, Xenix, Commodore 64, Texas Instruments TI-99 / 4A, Radio Shack TRS-80 Model II, TRS-80 Model 100 ( on ROM ), Apple II, and Burroughs B-20 series.

* Microsoft ActiveSync, used by Windows XP and older Windows operating systems to synchronize with Windows Mobile, Pocket PC, and Windows CE PDAs, as well as PDAs running iOS, Palm OS, and Symbian

PaintShop Pro ( PSP ) is a raster graphics editor and, later in the series, a vector graphics editor for computers running the Microsoft Windows operating system that was originally published by Minneapolis-based Jasc Software.

ParcPlace Systems tended to focus on the Unix / Sun Microsystems market, while Digitalk focused on Intel-based PCs running Microsoft Windows or IBM's OS / 2.

Logging into OpenWrt via SSH using PuTTY running on Microsoft Windows | Windows.

VBScript can also be used to create applications that run directly on a workstation running Microsoft Windows.

Microsoft recognized that a serious error or a stop error could cause problems for servers that needed to be constantly running and so provided a system setting that would allow the server to automatically reboot when a stop error occurred.

In order to improve performance on servers running Windows 2000, Microsoft gave administrators the choice of optimizing the operating system's memory and processor usage patterns for background services or for applications.

Cygwin / X running rootless on Microsoft Windows XP via the command.

The popular Minesweeper game under older versions of Microsoft Windows had a cheat mode triggered by entering the comment < tt > xyzzy < tt >, then pressing the key sequence shift and then enter, which turned a single pixel in the top-left corner of the entire screen into a small black or white dot depending on whether or not the mouse pointer is over a mine .< ref > This easter egg was present in all Windows versions through Windows XP Service Pack 2, but under Windows 95, 98 and NT 4. 0 the pixel was visible only if the standard Explorer desktop was not running.

Today it is normally accessed over TCP / IP using Viewdata client software on a personal computer running Microsoft Windows, or using a Web-based emulator.

Windows Media Player ( abbreviated WMP ) is a media player and media library application developed by Microsoft that is used for playing audio, video and viewing images on personal computers running the Microsoft Windows operating system, as well as on Pocket PC and Windows Mobile-based devices.

The Telephony Application Programming Interface ( TAPI ) is a Microsoft Windows API, which provides computer telephony integration and enables PCs running Microsoft Windows to use telephone services.

Psion was also challenged by the arrival of cheaper devices running Microsoft ’ s Windows CE and the lower functionality approach of the Palm Pilot.

More recent surveys have suggested a decline, with 29. 4 % of mail servers in August 2007 detected as running Sendmail in a study performed by E-Soft, Inc. Sendmail is trailed by Microsoft Exchange Server, Exim, and Postfix ; these four being the only mail servers with more than 10 % of the total.

Macs ( Computers manufactured by Apple Inc ) for OS X ( OS 10 ) are capable of running Microsoft Windows.

SMB and NetWare Core Protocol ( NCP ) occur more commonly than NFS on systems running Microsoft Windows ; AFP occurs more commonly than NFS in Macintosh systems ; and QFileSvr. 400 occurs more commonly in AS / 400 systems.