Allen officially resigned from his position on the Microsoft board in November 2000 but was asked to consult as a senior strategy advisor to the company's executives.

The term " X-Windows " ( in the manner of " Microsoft Windows ") is not officially endorsed, though it has been in common use since early in the history of X and has been used deliberately for provocative effect, for example in the UNIX-HATERS Handbook.

** Microsoft is officially registered with the Office of the Secretary of the State of New Mexico.

It would have consisted of all Keen games packaged together for Microsoft Windows and Pocket PC, but it never got out of the planning stages, and was never even officially announced.

2003 – Quest officially entered the Microsoft SQL Server market, and IDC named Quest # 1 in distributed database management software.

Microsoft's Windows Mobile 6, internally code-named ' Crossbow ', was officially released by Microsoft on February 12, 2007.

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.

Programmatic access to, or control of Outlook Express for custom messaging applications or plugins is not officially documented and supported by Microsoft.

Microsoft officially supports PWS on Windows 95, Windows 98, Windows 98 SE, and Windows NT 4. 0.

By 1999 it was clear that Microsoft had no intention of delivering Low Level ; although officially working on it, almost no resources were dedicated to actually producing code.

Microsoft Windows CE ( now officially known as Windows Embedded Compact and previously also known as Windows Embedded CE, and sometimes abbreviated WinCE ) is an operating system developed by Microsoft for embedded systems.

NBF protocol – apart from DOS and Unix implementations – is officially supported by Microsoft on almost every version of Windows up to Windows 2000, but its use has decreased quickly since the development of NBT.

Microsoft officially dropped support starting with Windows XP, but it is included on the Windows XP CD-ROM and can be installed manually.

Ensemble Studios was a video game developer initially established in 1995 as an independent company by Tony Goodman, Rick Goodman and John Boog-Scott, but was acquired by Microsoft in 2001 and operated as an internal studio until 2009, when it was officially disbanded.

When Bill Gates officially launched the first Microsoft Tablet PC on November 7, 2002, he was carrying a Fujitsu Stylistic ST400 model.

The 100 and 200 models are only officially compatible with the Apple Macintosh, while the 150 model is compatible with both the Apple Macintosh and Microsoft Windows.

* November 26 – Little-known company Microsoft is officially registered with the Office of the Secretary of the State of New Mexico.

Microsoft applications like Microsoft Office 2010 and Zune Software are not officially supported on Windows XP Professional x64 Edition, but may run with some workarounds by users.

Shortly after Excel 2000's release, Microsoft officially banned Easter eggs from its non-game software.

On July 14, 2012, NBC officially announced that Microsoft had sold back its controlling share of MSNBC. com for $ 300 million.

XBMC was originally created as a media center application for the original Xbox game console but is today officially available as a native application for Android, Linux, BSD, Mac OS X, iOS, and Microsoft Windows operating systems.

The commissioners deadlocked with a 2 – 2 vote in 1993 and closed the investigation, but the Department of Justice opened its own investigation on August 21 of that year, resulting in a settlement on July 15, 1994 in which Microsoft consented not to tie other Microsoft products to the sale of Windows but remained free to integrate additional features into the operating system.

In September 2007, Microsoft closed FASA Studios and licensed the Shadowrun electronic entertainment rights to Smith & Tinker, a company owned by Jordan Weisman, one of the original creators of Shadowrun.

As part of Apple's tactic of opening the font format versus Adobe's desire to keep it closed to all but Adobe licensees, Apple licensed TrueType to Microsoft.

In January 2009, it was reported by PCWorld that Microsoft closed down the ACES Game Studio, which was the department responsible for creating and maintaining the flight simulator series.

After the product's announcement, the company closed additional venture financing, including investments from Microsoft Corporation, Citicorp, Seagate Technology, Inc., Soros Capital, L. P., St. Paul Venture Capital and Times Mirror Company.

Releases of Microsoft Word and Excel soon closed some of the feature gaps, and as the Mac OS changed the products became increasingly difficult to run.

* Indie Built, Inc. in Salt Lake City, Utah, founded as Access Software in 1983, acquired from Microsoft in 2004 ; closed April 28, 2006

The gentle curve helps to enhance concentration, while its massive size makes it unsuitable for the typical cubicle and perfect for a small closed office, like the one each and every software developer has at Microsoft.

* SAMI, the closed caption format developed by Microsoft.

Based on the value of Microsoft stock when the deal closed the trade was worth approximately US $ 1. 5 billion.

* WDSibyl is an open source Delphi-like IDE and compiler available for Microsoft Windows and OS / 2, and is a commercial Borland Pascal compatible environment released by a company called Speedsoft that was later developed into a Delphi like RAD environment called Sybil and then open sourced under the GPL when that company closed down.

The default Microsoft Windows clipboard manager enables pasting the copied data, even after an application is closed, by maintaining the clip buffer itself.

* SAMI, Synchronized Accessible Media Interchange, a closed captioning format developed by Microsoft

On April 24, 2008, Microsoft closed its acquisition of FAST.

A Microsoft Certified Partner for Learning Solutions ( CPLS ) organization must employ or contract with a suitably certified MCT to deliver any Microsoft Official Courseware ( MOC ) courses they offer, whether to private closed groups or public classes.

TrustyFiles is a closed source Microsoft Windows-based peer-to-peer client which connects to the Gnutella, Gnutella2, FastTrack, eDonkey, Overnet and BitTorrent network protocols.

Though the two sequels did not perform quite as well at the box office as the first film, the trilogy remains immensely popular after a quarter of a century and has yielded such spin-offs as an animated television series and a motion-simulation ride at the Universal Studios Theme Parks in Universal City, California ; Orlando, Florida ( now closed ), and Osaka, Japan, as well as a Microsoft Windows, Macintosh, iPad, PS3 and Wii video game.

Despite promising first-year foot traffic of six million, one million ahead of pre-launch projections, by the summer of 2001 " The Way Things Work " was closed and a major tenant, the Microsoft store, exited in late 2001.

There can be two ways of accomplishing this: manually ( that is, if one is familiar with programming ; though it may be irrelevant if the source of the application is closed, and there are no built-in means to adjust its performance ) or using another piece of software specialized for that purpose ( such as Red Button and SysTool, semi-automatic tweaking utilities used to improve the performance of Microsoft Windows XP.

This method is mostly adopted by large closed source firms like Microsoft, because only big software firms are able to create distributed development centers in different time zones.