* Microsoft Roslyn, a set of APIs exposing the Microsoft C # and Visual Basic. NET compilers as runtime services

In July 2007, Microsoft made the technology available as a public customer technology preview ( CTP ) of the resulting system, called ' Microsoft Secure Content Downloader ' ( MSCD ).

* Microsoft Windows contains application compatibility shims to make the platform compatible with most software from earlier 32-bit and 16-bit versions ( e. g. Civilization ( circa 1991, designed for Windows 3. 0 ) running on Windows Vista ).

It is unlikely that the entire OS will be open at some point in the future, because it contains third-party code, much of it from Microsoft.

Microsoft Visual Studio 6. 0 Enterprise Edition contains a hidden Easter Egg, which is accessed using the words " Reggie " ( a reference to The Fall and Rise of Reginald Perrin ) and " Victor " ( a reference to One Foot In The Grave ).

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

For instance, Microsoft Windows on x86-64 uses the GS segment to point to the Thread Environment Block, a small data structure for each thread, which contains information about exception handling, thread-local variables, and other per-thread state.

Microsoft has also released a Flight Simulator X Demo, which contains three aircraft, two airports, and two missions.

Plucker contains POSIX tools, scripts and " conduits " which work on Unix, Linux, Mac OS X, and Microsoft Windows.

For example, some software by Microsoft and Eudora for Windows purportedly encoded their output using the ISO-8859-1 encoding while, in reality, used Windows-1252 that contains extra printable characters in the C1 range.

The Routing and Remote Access Service for Microsoft Windows contains a PPTP server.

The Sim390 emulator that runs on Microsoft Windows contains a demonstration system of MUSIC / SP.

Confusingly, Microsoft in its. NET documentation calls its LEB128 string length encoding UTF-7: " A length-prefixed string represents the string length by prefixing to the string a single byte or word that contains the length of that string.

Microsoft Studios contains twenty five studios worldwide, 20 for games development and 5 for entertainment technology advancement and publishing:

Microsoft Publisher 2010 contains the new ribbon interface.

* Microsoft System Center Orchestrator contains an orchestration engine which can be used for IT Process Automation as well as Business process management ( BPM ), allowing developers to quickly orchestrate complex IT and business processes involving multiple disparate systems.

It costs 500 Microsoft Points and contains four new maps to add to the game's original six.

Microsoft Dynamics GP is organized in Series, each of which contains several modules.

While it is unclear if Microsoft Windows contains designs copied from Apple's Mac OS, it is clear that neither was the first to produce a GUI using stacking windows.

For Microsoft Windows, a common approach is to install a version that contains the Windows Media Center ( Home Premium, Professional or Ultimate for Windows 7, Home Premium or Ultimate for Windows Vista, or the older Windows XP Media Center Edition ).

On March 10, 2010 ESET released ESET Mail Security for Microsoft Exchange Server, which contains both antimalware and antispam modules.

This program is an updated version of ESET NOD32 Antivirus Business Edition designed for Microsoft Windows Server operating systems and contains a revised user interface, automatic exclusions for critical directories and files and unspecified optimizations for operation on servers.

* In Microsoft Visual Studio,. NCB ( i. e. no compile browse ) denotes a " parser information file ", which contains information generated by the parser used by the class view and component gallery.

In December 2008 Microsoft released Dynamics NAV 2009, which contains both the original " classic " client, as well as a new three-tier GUI called the RoleTailored Client ( RTC ).

The 32 kilobyte read-only memory of the Model 100 contains the N82 version of the Microsoft BASIC 80 programming language.

For instance, Microsoft Windows on x86-64 uses the GS segment to point to the Thread Environment Block, a small data structure for each thread, which contains information about exception handling, thread-local variables, and other per-thread state.

It was designed as a free and lightweight alternative to Microsoft Visual Studio, and contains an equivalent feature for almost every essential Visual Studio Express feature, including features for project management, code editing, application compiling and debugging.

One such program is ProSystem, written in C / C ++ for the Microsoft Windows operating system.

* Microsoft Visual C ++ ( C90.

Its first product was Turbo Pascal in 1983, developed by Anders Hejlsberg ( who later developed. NET and C # for Microsoft ) and before Borland acquired the product sold in Scandinavia under the name of Compas Pascal.

Commonly used software tools and technologies in this field include Java, XML, Perl, C, C ++, Python, R, MySQL, SQL, CUDA, MATLAB, and Microsoft Excel.

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.

Toolsets like Microsoft Windows Services for UNIX ( SFU ), UWIN, MKS Toolkit for Enterprise Developers and Hamilton C shell also aim to provide a Unix-like user and development environment.

Microsoft applied C # and CLI under the Community Promise, so anyone can safely implement those standards without fearing a patent lawsuit.

* http :// msdn. microsoft. com / en-us / library / aa289157 ( v = vs. 71 ). aspx " Microsoft Visual C ++ Floating-Point Optimization ", by Eric Fleegal, MSDN, 2004

Most major compiler vendors for Windows still provide free copies of their command-line tools, including Microsoft ( Visual C ++, Platform SDK,. NET Framework SDK, nmake utility ), Embarcadero Technologies ( bcc32 compiler, make utility ).

The official implementation, the Melbourne Mercury Compiler, is available for most Unix platforms, including Mac OS X, as well as for Microsoft Windows ( in Windows, it requires one of the Cygwin or MinGW toolsets, and can be compiled either with GCC or Microsoft Visual C ++).

Multiplan was released first for computers running CP / M ; it was developed using a Microsoft proprietary p-code C compiler as part of a portability strategy that facilitated ports to systems such as MS-DOS, Xenix, Commodore 64, Texas Instruments TI-99 / 4A, Radio Shack TRS-80 Model II, TRS-80 Model 100 ( on ROM ), Apple II, and Burroughs B-20 series.

Similarly, Microsoft announced Language Integrated Query ( LINQ ) and DLINQ, an implementation of LINQ, in September 2005, to provide close, language-integrated database query capabilities with its programming languages C # and VB. NET 9.

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.

* June 7 – A computer user known as " _eci " publishes his Microsoft C source code on a Windows 95 and Windows NT exploit, which later becomes WinNuke.

* C # ( and other. NET languages ), via Code Contracts ( a Microsoft Research project integrated into the. NET Framework 4. 0 )

In a 2008 article in InfoWorld, Randall C. Kennedy, formerly of Intel, introduces this term using successive versions of Microsoft Office between the year 2000 and 2007 as his premise.

While Hungarian notation can be applied to any programming language and environment, it was widely adopted by Microsoft for use with the C language, in particular for Microsoft Windows, and its use remains largely confined to that area.

Gecko is written in C ++ and is cross-platform, and runs on various operating systems including BSDs, Linux, Mac OS X, Solaris, OS / 2, AIX, OpenVMS, and Microsoft Windows.

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