However, by 1999, Novell had lost its dominant market position, and was continually being out-marketed by Microsoft, which gained access to corporate data centers by bypassing technical staff and selling directly to corporate executives.

For example, most versions of windowing interfaces ( e. g. Microsoft Windows ) allowed users to reposition a window by dragging it with the mouse, but would not continually redraw the complete window at intermediate positions during the drag.

Halos characters were continually refined through development, as the company was bought by Microsoft and the platform shifted from the Macintosh to the Xbox.

The version of HotSpot for Microsoft Windows runs a background process jucheck. exe, which continually checks for updates from Oracle.

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.

This allows the user to update contact, schedule, or other information on their computer, using software such as Microsoft Outlook or ACT !, and have that same data transferred to PDA — or transfer updated information from the PDA back to the computer.

This version of TAPI was available as a downloadable update and was the first version to be supported on both the Microsoft Windows 95 and Windows NT / 2000 platforms.

Microsoft released an update to fix this problem.

This vulnerability was resolved in a security update on January 5, 2006 on Microsoft TechNet ( MS06-001 ) and generally released January 10, 2006.

Only two games that sold a significant volume, Lego Island and Lego Rock Raiders, were based on the Direct3D retained mode, so Microsoft did not update the retained mode after DirectX 3. 0.

Direct3D 10. 1 was announced by Microsoft shortly after the release of Direct3D 10 as a minor update.

Windows Server 2003 uses the range 1025 to 5000 by default, until Microsoft security update MS08-037 from 2008 is installed, after which it uses the IANA range by default.

With Offline Update burned to a CD or DVD, a technician can update Windows 2000 / XP / Vista and Microsoft Office 2003 / 2007 without an Internet connection.

Partial downloads are also extensively used by Microsoft Windows Update so that extremely large update packages can download in the background and pause halfway through the download, if the user turns off their computer or disconnects from the Internet.

On 7 April 2008, Microsoft released an update to the MFC classes as an out-of-band update to Visual Studio 2008 and MFC 9.

The update features new user interface constructs, including the Ribbon user interface of Microsoft Office 2007 and associated UI widgets, fully customizable toolbars, docking panes like Visual Studio 2005 ( which can either be freely floated or docked to any side ) and document tabs.

A persistent bug in Microsoft Update affecting XP computers with limited internal memory is that it allows the update programs wuauclt. exe and svchost. exe to claim 100 % of the computers ' memory for extended periods of time ( up to hours ) making affected computers unusable.

* Microsoft Update service ( http :// update. microsoft. com / microsoftupdate )

A next-generation update of BurgerTime was announced by MonkeyPaw Games for the WiiWare, Xbox Live Arcade, PlayStation Network and Microsoft Windows in late March 2011.

Microsoft Internet Explorer 7, the first major update to Internet Explorer 6 in half a decade, was only available for Windows XP SP2 and Windows Vista.

On April 24, 2007, Microsoft released an update called XNA Game Studio Express 1. 0 Refresh.

In March 2012, Microsoft released an update for a critical security vulnerability in the RDP protocol that allowed a Windows computer to be compromised by unauthenticated clients and computer worms.

* Microsoft Works 8. 5 ( Free update for Works 8. 0 and Microsoft Works Suite 2006 users )

With version 9 of Internet Explorer, Microsoft intends to comply with many modern web standards, and also intends to significantly update the layout engine to be more competitive and modern compared to other current layout engines.

On 23 March 2005 a version of Encarta was published using the new spelling, and on 14 April an update of Microsoft Office was offered.

On June 13, 2003, Microsoft announced that it was ceasing further development of Internet Explorer for Mac and the final update was released on July 11, 2003.

Direct3D ( the 3D graphics API within DirectX ) is widely used in the development of video games for Microsoft Windows, Microsoft Xbox, Microsoft Xbox 360 and some Sega Dreamcast games.

Microsoft released Direct3D in 1995, which eventually became the main competitor of OpenGL.

On December 17, 1997, Microsoft and SGI initiated the Fahrenheit project, which was a joint effort with the goal of unifying the OpenGL and Direct3D interfaces ( and adding a scene-graph API too ).

Its main competitor ( Direct3D from Microsoft ) runs only on Microsoft Windows-based machines including the Dreamcast and Xbox consoles.

Direct3D is available for Microsoft Windows operating systems ( Windows 95 and above ), and for other platforms through the open source software Wine.

The first version of Direct3D immediate mode was based on an " execute buffer " programming model that Microsoft hoped hardware vendors would support directly.

Rather than adopt OpenGL as a gaming API, Microsoft chose to continue improving Direct3D, not only to be competitive with OpenGL, but to compete more effectively with proprietary APIs such as 3dfx's Glide.

Direct3D 6. 0 also included support for features that had been licensed by Microsoft from specific hardware vendors for inclusion in the API, in exchange for the time-to-market advantage to the licensing vendor.

GPUs such as Radeon R600 feature a tessellation engine that can be used with Direct3D 9 / 10 / 10. 1 and OpenGL, but it's not compatible with Direct3D 11 ( according to Microsoft ).

Microsoft has also hinted at other features such as order independent transparency, which was never exposed by the Direct3D API but supported almost transparently by early Direct3D hardware such as Videologic's PowerVR line of chips.

Direct3D is a Microsoft DirectX API subsystem component.

The Microsoft Direct3D 11 API defines a process to convert a group of vertices, textures, buffers, and state into an image on the screen.

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It is one of the early games to adopt the use of 3D graphics hardware acceleration using Microsoft Direct3D.

The RenderMorphics team Servan Keondjian, Kate Seekings and Doug Rabson subsequently joined the Microsoft project which turned Reality Lab into Direct3D before Keondjian and Rabson left to start another middleware company Qube Software.

After renaming it as Direct3D 3. 0, Microsoft released it as the primary 3D API for Windows 95 and game programming.