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.

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.

Doom became a " killer app " that all capable consoles and operating systems were expected to have, and versions of Doom have subsequently been released for the following systems: DOS, Microsoft Windows, Linux, Apple Macintosh, Super NES, Sega 32X, Sony PlayStation, Game Boy Advance, iOS, Symbian OS, RISC OS, Atari Jaguar, Sega Saturn, Nintendo 64, Tapwave Zodiac, 3DO, Xbox, and Xbox Live Arcade.

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.

Netscape's competitor, Microsoft, released Internet Explorer 3. 0 later the same year with a port of JavaScript called JScript.

In 1997, Netscape and Microsoft released version 4. 0 of Netscape Navigator and Internet Explorer respectively, adding support for Dynamic HTML ( DHTML ), functionality enabling changes to a loaded HTML document.

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.

Microsoft Windows scored a significant success with Windows 3. 0, released in May 1990.

Later Microsoft also released Windows 3. 11, a touch-up to Windows 3. 1 which included all of the patches and updates that followed the release of Windows 3. 1 in 1992.

Around the same time, Microsoft released Windows for Workgroups ( WfW ), which was available both as an add-on for existing Windows 3. 1 installations and in a version that included the base Windows environment and the networking extensions all in one package.

Microsoft marketing adopted Windows 95 as the product name for Chicago when it was released on 24 August 1995.

Microsoft released Windows NT 4. 0 to manufacturing in July 1996, one year after the release of Windows 95.

On 25 June 1998, Microsoft released Windows 98 ( codenamed Memphis ).

In 1999, Microsoft released Windows 98 Second Edition, an interim release.

Microsoft released Windows 2000 in February 2000.

On 25 August 2001, Microsoft released Windows XP ( codenamed " Whistler ").

December 2005, Microsoft released Windows Server 2003 R2, which is actually Windows Server 2003 with SP1 ( Service Pack 1 ) plus an add-on package.

On 25 April 2005, Microsoft released Windows XP Professional x64 Edition and Windows Server 2003, x64 Editions in Standard, Enterprise and Datacenter SKUs.

In July 2006, Microsoft released a thin-client version of Windows XP Service Pack 2, called Windows Fundamentals for Legacy PCs ( WinFLP ).

Even though Microsoft released a cheap version of Adventure with its initial version of MS-DOS 1. 0 for IBM PCs, Zork I was still a popular seller for the PC, thanks to the superior quality of its writing and packaging.

Many companies sold TCP / IP stacks for Windows until Microsoft released its own TCP / IP stack in Windows 95.

** With the introduction of Windows 7 ( Business, Ultimate, or Enterprise editions ), Windows XP Mode enables full compatibility with older programs supported under Windows XP via Microsoft Virtual PC.

However, the foundation of memetics in full modern incarnation originates in the publication in 1996 of two books by authors outside the academic mainstream: Virus of the Mind: The New Science of the Meme by former Microsoft executive turned motivational speaker and professional poker player, Richard Brodie, and Thought Contagion: How Belief Spreads Through Society by Aaron Lynch, a mathematician and philosopher who worked for many years as an engineer at Fermilab.

It enables full POSIX compliance for certain Microsoft Windows products.

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.

By contrast, when an organization licenses Visual Basic for Applications ( VBA ) from Microsoft-as companies such as Autodesk, StatSoft, Great Plains Accounting and Visio ( subsequently acquired by Microsoft ) have done-it is allowed to redistribute the full VBA code-writing and debugging environment with its product.

This was the last version of DOS that IBM and Microsoft shared the full code for, and the DOS that was integrated into OS / 2 2. 0's, and later Windows NT's, virtual DOS machine.

For example, an accounting student buys academically priced Microsoft Excel, and as a result of getting used to it, continues to use it throughout a future career, the future editions of which he buys at full price, instead of moving to the fully compatible OpenOffice. org equivalent application.

Microsoft FrontPage ( full name Microsoft Office FrontPage ) is a discontinued WYSIWYG HTML editor and Web site administration tool from Microsoft for the Microsoft Windows line of operating systems.

The project to make " Bang ", the title track off their newest album, the first track in Rock Band to feature full, four-instrument gameplay based on no live or synthesized instruments began in the summer of 2010, and was released for purchase on January 30, 2011 through the RBN for 160 Microsoft Points ($ 1. 99 ).

High-end game port joysticks such as the Microsoft SideWinder rely on multiplexing a proprietary data stream through the 4 standard button inputs and sometimes through the " unused " pins, achieving full support for a rather high number of buttons ( e. g. 16 or 20 ) while special features such as daisy-chaining multiple joysticks, force feedback or joystick programming become possible in some cases.

In 2007 CodeGear released C ++ Builder 2007, providing full API support for Microsoft Vista, increased ANSI C ++ conformance, up to 500 % faster in-IDE build performance, support for MSBuild, DBX4 database architecture, and " VCL for the Web " which supports AJAX.

Actual PC software compatibility, however, required third party software such as SoftPC, which allowed some MS-DOS and early Microsoft Windows programs to run, or Connectix Virtual PC, which allowed the Mac to run Windows via full PC emulation.

Although full documentation is not yet available, preliminary documentation for the use of these hotfixes is available via a Microsoft blog.

Microsoft also demonstrated a unit with DVR capability, but this did not become available until the end of 1999 for full DVR features in Dish Network's DISHplayer receivers.

Between 1991 and 1995, Bell advised Microsoft in its efforts to start a research group, then joined it full time in August 1995, where he still works ( as of 2010 ), studying telepresence and related ideas.

Version 1. 7, released November 2006, makes full use of database abstraction so that installers can choose one from many types of database servers such as Oracle and Microsoft SQL Server.

* toggles full screen in Microsoft Internet Explorer.

" Packed full with more than 100 new features, Football Manager 2007 is set for release on PC, Mac and Intel Mac, as well as the Xbox 360 video game and entertainment system from Microsoft.

Simple MAPI ships with Microsoft Windows as part of Outlook Express / Windows Mail while the full Extended MAPI ships with Office Outlook and Exchange.

Microsoft has released full details of the MAPI / RPC protocol since August 2007.

Mafia ( also known by its full title, Mafia: The City of Lost Heaven ) is a third-person shooter video game initially made for Microsoft Windows in ( and later ported to the PlayStation 2 and the Xbox in ).