This component has been deprecated as of DirectX 9 and Microsoft no longer recommends its use for game development.

Microsoft recommends that " Windows-format " ( WMF ) functions only " rarely " be used and " enhanced-format " ( EMF ) functions be used instead.

Microsoft recommends use of the XNA Math library instead.

If higher accuracy is desired, Microsoft recommends to use a different NTP implementation.

Microsoft recommends using the multithreaded, dynamic link library (/ MD or / MDd compiler option ) to avoid possible problems.

Microsoft recommends applications use UTF-8 or UCS-2 / UTF-16 instead of these code pages.

Microsoft recommends saving a Microsoft Works database file in the dBase file format so that it can be read by Microsoft Excel.

Microsoft recommends that ASF files containing non-Windows Media codecs use the generic < tt >. ASF </ tt > file extension.

Microsoft recommends that Sysprep be set up on all machines before cloning, rather than allow third party programs to configure them.

While Microsoft recommends that the visually impaired purchase a full-function screen reader for general computer use, Narrator is a significant piece of software for a number of reasons.

For viewing older ( 97-2003 ) as well as newer ( Office Open XML ) documents, Microsoft recommends Word Viewer, which is available for free.

Microsoft recommends the careful division of FSMO roles, with standby DCs ready to take over each role.

Microsoft recommends " that users migrate to more recent web browsing technologies such as Apple's Safari.

Microsoft still recommends using " mms ://" as a " protocol rollover URL ".

Microsoft recommends the use of the Joliet extension for developers targeting Windows.

Microsoft recommends that the event handlers only update the properties to reflect new content for application responsiveness ; the new content be generated or retrieved in a background thread.

As of Windows Vista, NetMeeting is no longer included with Microsoft Windows, and Microsoft recommends using newer applications such as Windows Meeting Space, Remote Desktop Connection, Remote Assistance, Windows Live Messenger and Microsoft Office Live Meeting in place of NetMeeting.

Microsoft recommends that users who experience problems with the application uninstall it.

Microsoft recommends that all 256 × 256 icons in the ICO files should be stored in PNG format to reduce the overall size of the file.

Microsoft recommends that DEP not be globally disabled where an application crashes due to a DEP error.

BASIC remains popular in numerous dialects and new languages influenced by BASIC such as Microsoft Visual Basic.

Microsoft has attempted to reduce system instability due to poorly written device drivers by creating a new framework for driver development, called Windows Driver Foundation ( WDF ).

On December 6, 2007, FASA founder Jordan Weisman announced that his new venture, Smith & Tinker, had licensed the electronic gaming rights to MechWarrior, Shadowrun, and Crimson Skies from Microsoft.

In an attempt to resolve this tension, IBM and Microsoft agreed that IBM would develop OS / 2 2. 0, to replace OS / 2 1. 3 and Windows 3. 0, while Microsoft would develop a new operating system, OS / 2 3. 0, to later succeed OS / 2 2. 0.

Microsoft hired him in August 1988 to create a successor to OS / 2, but Cutler created a completely new system instead.

After Windows 3. 11, Microsoft began to develop a new consumer oriented version of the operating system codenamed Chicago.

On 25 April 2003 Microsoft launched Windows Server 2003, a notable update to Windows 2000 Server encompassing many new security features, a new " Manage Your Server " wizard that simplifies configuring a machine for specific roles, and improved performance.

The problems led to Bill Gates famously referring to the 80286 as a " brain dead chip ", since it was clear that the new Microsoft Windows environment would not be able to run multiple MS-DOS applications with the 286.

The new area was led by Allison Mankin and Scott Bradner, and had a directorate with 15 engineers from diverse backgrounds for direction-setting and preliminary document review: The working-group members were J. Allard ( Microsoft ), Steve Bellovin ( AT & T ), Jim Bound ( Digital Equipment Corporation ), Ross Callon ( Wellfleet ), Brian Carpenter ( CERN ), Dave Clark ( MIT ), John Curran ( NEARNET ), Steve Deering ( Xerox ), Dino Farinacci ( Cisco ), Paul Francis ( NTT ), Eric Fleischmann ( Boeing ), Mark Knopper ( Ameritech ), Greg Minshall ( Novell ), Rob Ullmann ( Lotus ), and Lixia Zhang ( Xerox ).

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.

* MKS Inc .′ s MKS Korn shell — a proprietary implementation of the KornShell language from Microsoft Windows Services for UNIX ( SFU ) up to version 2. 0 ; according to David Korn, the MKS Korn shell was not fully compatible with KornShell in 1998 ; in SFU version 3. 0 Microsoft replaced the MKS Korn shell with a new POSIX. 2-compliant shell as part of Interix ;

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.

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.

While waiting for this new high-end system to develop, Microsoft would still receive licensing money from Xenix and OS / 2 sales.

The same distinction between plug-ins and extensions is in use by other web browsers, such as Microsoft Internet Explorer, where a typical extension might be a new toolbar, and a plug-in might embed a video player on the page.

At one point, Microsoft and Apple teamed up to try to unseat Adobe's laser printer monopoly, Microsoft licensing to Apple a PostScript-compatible interpreter it had bought called TrueImage, and Apple licensing to Microsoft its new font format, TrueType.

" Some of the new features are command-line compilation, user-defined variables, conditional build tags, build-tag usage reports, RoboSource Control 3, Microsoft Word import / export improvements, and Adobe Acrobat Elements.

The new release includes integration with Microsoft SharePoint and other web services geared towards government and business users.

Support for people with disabilities has been improved over Windows NT 4. 0 with a number of new assistive technologies, and Microsoft increased support for different languages and locale information.

Examples of applications often classified as applets are all of the accessories bundled in Microsoft Windows ( such as Windows Notepad or Microsoft Paint ).

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.

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.

For instance, JavaBeans library is used for designing enterprise applications, Windows Forms library is used for designing graphical user interface ( GUI ) applications like Microsoft Word, and Windows Communication Foundation is used for designing web services.

Companies like Sun Microsystems, Novell, and Microsoft provide their own APIs so that many applications are written using their software libraries that usually have numerous APIs in them.

MinGW allows developers to create native Microsoft Windows applications.

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.

Even though the 3. 1x series still lacked most of the important features of OS / 2, such as long file names, a desktop, or protection of the system against misbehaving applications, Microsoft quickly took over the OS and GUI markets for the IBM PC.

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.

KDE () is an international free software community producing an integrated set of cross-platform applications designed to run on Linux, FreeBSD, Microsoft Windows, Solaris and Mac OS X systems.

For example, Microsoft changed its Office applications from SDI to MDI mode and then back to SDI, although the degree of implementation varies from one component to another.

Since some applications ( notably, but not exclusively, the parts of Microsoft Office ) allow macro programs to be embedded in documents, so that the programs may be run automatically when the document is opened, this provides a distinct mechanism by which viruses can be spread.

" Red Spine " was designed to support Microsoft Windows applications by finding and using Windows already installed on the computer's hard drive.

Paul Gardner Allen ( born January 21, 1953 ) is an American investor and philanthropist best known as the co-founder of Microsoft Corporation along with Bill Gates, a leading developer of personal-computer software systems and applications.

For receiving messages, client applications usually use either the Post Office Protocol ( POP ) or the Internet Message Access Protocol ( IMAP ) or a proprietary system ( such as Microsoft Exchange or Lotus Notes / Domino ) to access their mail box accounts on a mail server.

SSH is a protocol that can be used for many applications across many platforms including most Unix variants ( Linux, the BSD's including Apple's OS X, & Solaris ), as well as Microsoft Windows.

* Vulnerabilities in various versions of Microsoft Windows, its default web browser Internet Explorer, and its mail applications Outlook and Outlook Express have caused worldwide problems when computer viruses, Trojan horses, or computer worms have taken advantage of those vulnerabilities.

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

While each edition of Windows 2000 was targeted at a different market, they shared a core set of features, including many system utilities such as the Microsoft Management Console and standard system administration applications.

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.

Microsoft Windows also includes undocumented low-level functions and obscure bugs that Wine must duplicate precisely in order to allow some applications to work properly.

It also contains a lot of improvements across the board, as well as support for many new applications, notably Microsoft Office 2010.