He first gained media attention for breaking into several high-profile computer networks, including those of The New York Times, Yahoo !, and Microsoft, culminating in his 2003 arrest.

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.

The implementations differ: Microsoft Word was one of the first applications to only show sub-entries of some menu entries after clicking an arrow icon on the context menu, otherwise executing an action associated with the parent entry.

The technology was first introduced in software in January 2000 as an always-on feature of Microsoft Reader, which was released to the public in August 2000.

During November 1999, Compaq began to work with Microsoft to create the first in a line of small-scale, web-based computer systems called MSN Companions.

The history of the Document Object Model is intertwined with the history of the " browser wars " of the late 1990s between Netscape Navigator and Microsoft Internet Explorer, as well as with that of JavaScript and JScript, the first scripting languages to be widely implemented in the layout engines of web browsers.

Initially developed ( though not publicly released ) on the Atari ST, the first commercial release was for the 16-bit Microsoft MS-DOS platform and was proprietary.

Craig ported his original Atari implementation to the 16-bit Microsoft MS-DOS platform and Euphoria was first released ( version 1. 0 ) in July, 1993 under a proprietary licence.

The first independent version of Microsoft Windows, version 1. 0, released on 20 November 1985, achieved little popularity.

The first version of Microsoft Windows included a simple graphics painting program called Windows Paint ; Windows Write, a simple word processor ; an appointment " calendar "; a " cardfiler "; a " notepad "; a " clock "; a " control panel "; a " computer terminal "; " Clipboard "; and RAM driver.

Microsoft had a double gain from its release: first, it made it impossible for consumers to run Windows 95 on a cheaper, non-Microsoft DOS ; secondly, although traces of DOS were never completely removed from the system and MS DOS 7 would be loaded briefly as a part of the booting process, Windows 95 applications ran solely in 386 enhanced mode, with a flat 32-bit address space and virtual memory.

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

The book takes place first at Microsoft in Redmond, Washington ( near Seattle ) and then Silicon Valley ( near San Francisco ).

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.

Around 1983, during the development of the first release of Windows, Microsoft had plans to make a Windows version.

The artwork has rough pixelated edges, jagged lines, and few colors ( the hallmarks of Microsoft Paint drawings ), and characters are almost always copied and pasted after their first appearance.

Return to Castle Wolfenstein is a first person shooter video game published by Activision and originally released on November 19, 2001 for Microsoft Windows, Playstation 2, Xbox, Linux and Macintosh.

It was the first entry in the sixth generation of video game consoles, preceding its rivals: Sony PlayStation 2, Microsoft Xbox and the Nintendo GameCube.

Subsequent advances in technology have introduced first anti-aliasing, which smooths the edges of fonts at the expense of a slight blurring, and more recently subpixel rendering ( the Microsoft implementation goes by the name ClearType ), which exploits the pixel structure of LCD based displays to increase the apparent resolution of text.

Hasbro has recently licensed electronic marketing rights to Microsoft, making it available electronically for the first time since AOL bought Games. com and withdrew the game.

* Close Combat-( Microsoft, 1996 )-not the first wargame to break out from hexes, and still presented in a 2-dimensional format, Close Combat nonetheless uniquely addressed factors such as individual morale and reluctance to carry out orders.

In 1996, Microsoft released its first competitive browser, which was complete with its own features and tags.

IBM later introduced OS / 2 into the United States v. Microsoft case, blaming unfair marketing tactics on Microsoft's part.

In September 2000, Microsoft introduced Windows Me ( Millennium Edition ), which upgraded Windows 98 with enhanced multimedia and Internet features from Windows 2000.

In 2011, Microsoft introduced Windows Thin PC or WinTPC, which is a feature-and size-reduced locked-down version of Windows 7 expressly designed to turn older PCs into thin clients.

Netware dominated the personal computer LAN business from early after its introduction in 1983 until the mid 1990s when Microsoft introduced Windows NT Advanced Server and Windows for Workgroups.

To give webmasters the option to specify that the ODP content should not be used for listings of their website, Microsoft introduced in May 2006 the new "" value for the "" element of the meta tags.

SVG was developed by the W3C SVG Working Group starting in 1998, after Macromedia and Microsoft introduced VML whereas Adobe Systems and Sun Microsystems submitted a competing format known as PGML.

Audio Video Interleaved ( also Audio Video Interleave ), known by its initials AVI, is a multimedia container format introduced by Microsoft in November 1992 as part of its Video for Windows technology.

ADO was introduced by Microsoft in October 1996.

TAPI was introduced in 1993 as the result of joint development by Microsoft and Intel.

FrameMaker 10 ( 2011 ) again refined the user interface and introduced several changes, including: integration with content management systems via EMC Documentum 6. 5 with Service Pack 1 and Microsoft SharePoint Server 2007 with Service Pack 2.

Microsoft also updated the graphical user interface, shell features, and Windows Explorer in Windows Me with some of those first introduced in Windows 2000, which had been released as a business-oriented operating system seven months earlier.

Almost every new version of Microsoft Windows has introduced its own additions and changes to the Windows API.

The Microsoft / Borland C ++ compilers had the ability to use this system as soon as it was introduced in Windows 95 and NT, however the actual implementation was undocumented and had to be reverse engineered for the Wine project and free compilers.

In October 2004, Swatch introduced its first smart watch, the Paparazzi, based on Microsoft Corporation's SPOT ( Smart Personal Objects Technology ) technology.

Microsoft Excel and PowerPoint ( originally by Forethought ) were actually developed and released first for the Macintosh, and similarly Microsoft Word 1 for Macintosh was the first time a GUI version of that software was introduced on any personal computer platform.

It was introduced in 1991 by Microsoft and IBM, and was presented by Microsoft as the default format for Windows 3. 1 multimedia files.

In line with their policy of using. RIFF for all Windows 3. 1 " multimedia " files, Microsoft introduced a new variant on the existing MIDI file format used for storing song information to be played on electronic musical instruments.

Present versions of Microsoft Word have introduced a new format MS-OOXML.

Microsoft introduced AI traffic in MSFS 2002 with several airliners and private aircraft.

With Visual C ++ 2005, Microsoft also introduced Team Foundation Server.