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.

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.

Microsoft recommends that new applications make use of the Windows message loop for keyboard and mouse input instead of DirectInput ( as indicated in the Meltdown 2005 slideshow ), and to use XInput instead of DirectInput for Xbox 360 controllers.

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.

For instance, if a user is designing a Microsoft Windows desktop application, he / she might use the. NET Windows Forms library to design the desktop application and call its APIs like Form1. Close () and Form1. Show () to close or open the application and write the additional operations him / herself that it need to have.

* What is an Input Method Editor and how do I use it ?, a Microsoft article about Windows XP's Input Method Editor.

* IME Tutorial, tutorial on how to use Microsoft Global IME for pre-Windows 2000 systems.

* NJStar Software Corp. ( 南极星 Nanjixing ): Chinese, Japanese, and Korean language software solutions for use with Microsoft Windows operating systems.

The Microsoft Campus in Redmond, Washington, as well as hospitals use the term to describe the territory of their facilities.

This convention remains in use by several operating systems today, including Microsoft Windows.

* Microsoft Silverlight, an implementation for use in web browsers-for Microsoft Windows and Mac OS X.

While most modern IDEs are graphical, IDEs in use before the advent of windowing systems ( such as Microsoft Windows or X Window System ( X11 )) were text-based, using function keys or hotkeys to perform various tasks ( Turbo Pascal is a common example ).

* Differences in culture and vision: Microsoft favored the open hardware system approach that contributed to its success on the PC ; IBM sought to use OS / 2 to drive sales of its own hardware, including systems that could not support the features Microsoft wanted.

Microsoft programmers also became frustrated with IBM's bureaucracy and its use of lines of code to measure programmer productivity.

( Microsoft discouraged the use of VCPI under Windows 3. 1, however, due to performance degradation.

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.

Around the same time a number of concepts were imported from C to let Pascal programmers use the C-based API of Microsoft Windows directly.

There are several programs available for password attack ( or even auditing and recovery by systems personnel ) such as L0phtCrack, John the Ripper, and Cain ; some of which use password design vulnerabilities ( as found in the Microsoft LANManager system ) to increase efficiency.

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.

When TrueType and the license to Microsoft was announced, John Warnock of Adobe gave an impassioned speech in which he claimed Apple and Microsoft were selling snake oil, and then announced that the Type 1 format was open for anyone to use.

Meanwhile, in exchange for Truetype, Apple got a license for TrueImage, a PostScript-compatible page description language owned by Microsoft that Apple could use in their laser printers. This was never actually included in any Apple products when a later deal was struck between Apple and Adobe, where Adobe promised to put a TrueType interpreter in their PostScript printer boards, Apple renewed its agreements with Adobe for the use of PostScript in its printers ; resulting in lower royalty payments to Adobe who was beginning to license printer controllers capable of competing directly with Apple's LaserWriter printers.

Microsoft and Monotype technicians used TrueType's hinting technology to ensure that these fonts did not suffer from the problem of illegibility at low resolutions, which had previously forced the use of bitmapped fonts for screen display.

It is designed as a “ lightweight ” language with a fast interpreter for use in a wide variety of Microsoft environments.

This relatively widespread use of VBScript is not because of many special merits of VBScript-several useful features of the full Visual Basic, such as strong typing, extended error trapping and the ability to pass a variable number of parameters to a subroutine have been removed-but mainly because, apart from being easy to learn, royalties need not be paid to Microsoft by implementers as long as the VBScript trade mark is acknowledged.

Among the many companies and government organizations that use wikis internally are Adobe Systems, Amazon. com, Intel, Microsoft and the United States intelligence community.