: A programmer initially working for Microsoft.

: A gifted programmer with high-functioning autism ( specifically dyspraxia ) initially working for Microsoft.

OS / 2 is a series of computer operating systems, initially created by Microsoft and IBM, then later developed by IBM exclusively.

It initially showed some promise of bringing order to the world of interactive 3D computer graphics APIs, but on account of financial constraints at SGI, strategic reasons at Microsoft, and general lack of industry support, it was abandoned in 1999.

The version of Win32 shipped with Windows 95 was initially referred to as Win32c, with the " c " standing for " compatibility ", but this term was later abandoned by Microsoft in favour of Win32.

Microsoft initially announced that applications using OpenDoc would be deemed compatible with OLE, and would receive certification for Windows 95.

Although SmartSuite was bundled cheaply with many PCs and may initially have been more popular than Microsoft Office, Lotus quickly lost its dominance in the desktop applications market with the transition to 32 bit applications running on Windows 95.

OpenDoc was initially created by Apple Computer in 1992 after Microsoft approached Apple asking for input on a proposed OLE II project.

F # was initially developed by Don Syme at Microsoft Research but is now being developed at Microsoft Developer Division and is being distributed as a fully supported language in the. NET Framework and Visual Studio.

2, also initially released for the Dreamcast and later ported to Microsoft Windows.

It was initially designed and developed by Sybase Inc. for their Sybase SQL Server relational database engine in 1984, and later by Microsoft in Microsoft SQL Server.

It used technology initially from Microsoft Bob and later Microsoft Agent, offering advice based on Bayesian algorithms.

In the United States, Microsoft Corporation was initially convicted of breaking the Anti-Trust Laws and engaging in anti-competitive behavior in order to form one such barrier in United States v. Microsoft ; after a successful appeal on technical grounds, Microsoft agreed to a settlement with the Department of Justice in which they were faced with stringent oversight procedures and explicit requirements designed to prevent this predatory behavior.

It was initially developed by Microsoft for Windows 3. 0, although Microsoft later turned control of the specification over to an industry committee with open membership.

In reality, the protocols were supported as a native transport for Windows ' SMB / NetBIOS, and NetWare connectivity required additional installation of an NCP client ( Microsoft provided a basic NetWare client with Windows 95 and later, but it was not automatically installed, and initially only supported NetWare bindery mode ).

Slate is a US-based English language online current affairs and culture magazine created in 1996 by former New Republic editor Michael Kinsley, initially under the ownership of Microsoft as part of MSN.

LithTech is a game engine which was initially developed by Monolith Productions in collaboration with Microsoft.

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.

In 1975, MITS released Altair BASIC, developed by Bill Gates and Paul Allen as the company Micro-Soft, which grew into today's corporate giant, Microsoft.

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 types of software include web pages developed in languages and frameworks like HTML, PHP, Perl, JSP, ASP. NET, XML, and desktop applications like OpenOffice. org, Microsoft Word developed in languages like C, C ++, Objective-C, Java, C #, or Smalltalk.

The Common Language Infrastructure ( CLI ) is an open specification developed by Microsoft and standardized by ISO and ECMA that describes the executable code and runtime environment that form the core of the Microsoft. NET Framework and the free and open source implementations Mono and Portable. NET.

Currently the most widely used hierarchical databases are IMS developed by IBM and Windows Registry by Microsoft.

Two other groups contributed to the design of the language and developed implementations: Harlequin released a commercial IDE for Microsoft Windows and Carnegie Mellon University released an open source compiler for Unix systems.

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.

Originally developed on IRIX, Freeciv has been ported to many different operating systems: it is distributed with many Linux distributions, offers installers for Microsoft Windows, and has been known to run on Mac OS X, Solaris, Ultrix, QNX, OS / 2, Cygwin, AmigaOS, RISC OS, Maemo, ZETA, SkyOS and various BSDs.

Despite the age of this concept, file managers based on Norton Commander are actively developed, and dozens of implementations exist for DOS, Unix, and Microsoft Windows.

Crimson Skies was originally developed by Zipper Interactive under the FASA Interactive brand in late 2000 and used under license by FASA ; FASA Interactive had been purchased by Microsoft, so rights to Crimson Skies stayed with Microsoft.

GW-BASIC was a dialect of the programming language BASIC developed by Microsoft from BASICA, originally for Compaq.

Greg Whitten, an early Microsoft employee who developed the standards in the company's BASIC compiler line, says Bill Gates picked the name GW-BASIC.

By the early 1990s, conflicts developed in the Microsoft / IBM relationship.

In response to the impending release of OS / 2 2. 0, Microsoft developed Windows 3. 1, which included several minor improvements to Windows 3. 0 ( such as display of TrueType scalable fonts, developed jointly with Apple ), but primarily consisted of bugfixes and multimedia support.

Microsoft announced that they have discontinued the separate release of WinFS for Windows XP and Windows Vista and will gradually incorporate the technologies developed for WinFS in other products and technologies, notably Microsoft SQL Server.

Several groups developed operating systems for the architecture, including Microsoft Windows, Linux, and UNIX variants such as HP-UX, Solaris,

Originally developed by Netscape, it is still supported by Mozilla, Firefox, Chrome, Safari ( but not in Safari on the iPhone ) and Opera, but traditionally ignored by Microsoft.

A standard for MIDI over USB was developed in 1999 as a joint effort between IBM, Microsoft, Altec Lansing, Roland Corporation, and Philips.

It can record into a register ( macro ) what a person types on the keyboard and it can be replayed or edited just like VBA macros for Microsoft Office.

Microsoft claims the name change is a natural progression since Groove is to SharePoint what Outlook is to Exchange.

Raymond Chen, a Microsoft developer who works on the Windows API, has said: " I could probably write for months solely about bad things apps do and what we had to do to get them to work again ( often in spite of themselves ).

This was denied by Stephen Toulouse, writing officially on behalf of Microsoft ,, and also by Microsoft employee Mark Russinovich, who explained what he said were several misunderstandings in Gibson's analysis.

with a steady stream of revenue, the deal gave Microsoft what it had been seeking at a much cheaper price than its 2008 unsolicited bid.

Atari did what many of the other home computer companies did: they purchased the source code to the MOS 6502 version of Microsoft 8K BASIC, intending to port it to run on their new machines.

In June, in a sign of continuing trouble at MSNBC, Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer said that he would not have started MSNBC if he knew then what he knows now.

While attending the meeting with an early draft of what was then still MS Data Access, Kyle Geiger of Microsoft invited Jeff Balboni and Larry Barnes of Digital Equipment Corporation ( DEC ) to join the SQLC meetings as well.

For instance, it took significant effort for the system to be able to turn a text file with some pictures into a Microsoft Word document, both because the text editor had no idea what was in the embedded objects, and because the proprietary Microsoft format was undocumented and required reverse engineering.

Microsoft defined a number of code pages known as the ANSI code pages ( as the first one, 1252 was based on an apocryphal ANSI draft of what became ISO 8859-1 ).

In what was widely consider to be a ' coup ' at the time, Looksmart signed a lucrative deal with Microsoft in 1998, to provide directory and listing services.

Vijay Kapoor, national technology officer, Microsoft, defines what open standards are as follows:

Along with the announcement, he presented a lengthy comedy skit on what his last day with Microsoft would be like, complete with cameos from celebrities including Jay-Z, Steven Spielberg, Barack Obama, Hillary Rodham Clinton and many others.

Microsoft tried to solve both problems with a hack that has had long-term consequences for the understanding of what DPI and PPI mean.

Microsoft began writing its software to treat the screen as though it provided a PPI characteristic that is times larger than what the screen actually displayed.

At about the same time, IBM proposed something called the HyperText Printing Protocol ( HTPP ), and both HP and Microsoft had started work on new print services for what became MS Windows 2000.

: JBHTTP is a webserver interface to Jukeboxes that is similar to what Notmad Explorer ( see below ) did for Microsoft Windows

These also change depending on what folder the user was in, leading to some criticism of Microsoft for not being consistent in displaying navigation choices.

In order to maintain a relevant list of file types, Windows Explorer connects to Microsoft and downloads a set of XML files that define what these file types are.

The game is distinctly different from other racing games — IGN noted the difference from the Need for Speed series — because of what Microsoft called " an unprecedented degree of freedom to drive around in a virtual city.

At the time of release he said, " I did not feel that many people inside Microsoft understood what the Open Source community was really about and I wanted to improve that understanding by providing an example.