When Microsoft registered the trademark Win32, the 32 was dropped to simply become Cygwin.

When Microsoft later set out to develop a gaming console, the X was used as the basis of the name Xbox to indicate that the console was based on DirectX technology.

When Microsoft acquired the FASA Interactive subsidiary, Babcock went with that company.

When PenPoint failed in the marketplace, SmartSketch was ported to Microsoft Windows and Mac OS.

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.

When employed for client-side web development in Microsoft Internet Explorer, VBScript is similar in function to JavaScript.

When specifying file names ( or paths ) in CP / M, DOS, Microsoft Windows and Unix-like operating systems, the asterisk character ("*") substitutes for zero or more characters.

When Microsoft FreeCell became very popular during the 1990s it was not clear which of the 32, 000 deals in the program were solvable.

When released in 1993, Cello was the only browser for the Microsoft Windows platform.

When Microsoft eventually lost interest in OS / 2 as well, it based its further high-end strategy on Windows NT.

When the IBM PC arrived in late 1981, it came with PC-DOS, which was developed from 86-DOS, which Microsoft acquired for this purpose.

When faced with the same problems on Microsoft Windows-based versions of their programs, Adobe chose to instead include a TIFF file encoded into the header section of the PostScript.

When Alt-0181 or the DOS legacy Alt + 230 is typed into an editable field using the numeric keypad in Microsoft Windows, the µ symbol appears.

When the final revision of the third version of the GPL license was decided, the deal between Microsoft and Novell was grandfathered in.

When video game consoles entered the 4th and 5th generation, Sony and later Microsoft adopted a strategy of embracing cutting edge technology and selling their console at a loss, which was compensated by the licensing fee from sales of games.

When Microsoft Office 95 and Windows 95 were introduced into the Chinese market, the influence and sales of WPS went into steep decline.

When WPS 97 was released in 1997, it struggled to compete with Microsoft Office 97.

When a document is created in Microsoft Word 2007 and opened in an earlier version ( like Microsoft Word 2003 ), Microsoft Word 2003 tells the user it can download a converter to read files in the newer Microsoft Word 2007 format.

When Borland eventually sold its Quattro Pro and Paradox products to Novell, where they would be joined with Word Perfect in an attempt to match Microsoft Office, Borland was left with InterBase, which Esber had purchased in the late 1980s and had its origins as a derivative of the RDB database work at DEC. Borland's ongoing strategy was to refocus its development tools on the corporate market with client – server applications, so Interbase fitted in as a low-end tool and a good generic SQL database for prototyping.

When issuing unscheduled patches, e. g., major patches that aren't released on Patch Tuesday, Microsoft refers to these patches as " out of band.

When the United States entered the First World War Baker made certain that the Draft Act of 1917 prohibited the sale of liquor to men in uniform and that it provided for broad zones around the camps in which prostitution was outlawed.

When Alex entered his room, the doctor was already preparing a nest in the straw case, six eggs ready for the hen's attentions.

When the Germanic peoples entered the Roman Empire and founded successor-kingdoms in the western part, most had been Arian Christians for more than a century.

When Ibn Habib's soldiers entered the camp, the Berber chieftain ’ s wife Tekfah hid Abd al-Rahman under her personal belongings to help him go unnoticed.

When James Bradley and Samuel Molyneux entered this sphere of astronomical research in 1725, there consequently prevailed much uncertainty whether stellar parallaxes had been observed or not ; and it was with the intention of definitely answering this question that these astronomers erected a large telescope at the house of the latter at Kew.

When the Greek army entered Thessaloniki in the First Balkan War ahead of the Bulgarian 7th division by only a day, they were asked to allow a Bulgarian battalion to enter the city.

When Havana surrendered, the admiral of the British fleet, George Keppel, the 3rd Earl of Albemarle, entered the city as a conquering new governor and took control of the whole western part of the island.

When Mehmed finally entered Constantinople through what is now known as the Topkapi Gate, he immediately rode his horse to the Hagia Sophia which he ordered to be sacked.

When a Dictator entered office, he appointed to serve as his second-in-command a magister equitum, the Master of the Horse, whose office ceased to exist once the Dictator left office.

When the censors entered upon their office, they drew lots to see which of them should perform this purification ; but both censors were of course obliged to be present at the ceremony.

When PEI entered Confederation in 1873, it was accorded 6 MPs and 4 Senators ; however this was reduced to 4 MPs by the early twentieth century.

:* When is entered, it is picked up by the scanning unit, the number 25 is encoded and sent to the X register.

When the United States entered World War I, Eastman organized with Roger Baldwin and Norman Thomas the National Civil Liberties Bureau to protect conscientious objectors, or in her words: " To maintain something over here that will be worth coming back to when the weary war is over.

When Dave Wesely entered the service in 1970, his friend and fellow Napoleonics wargamer Dave Arneson began a medieval variation of Wesely's Braunstein games, where players control individuals instead of armies.

When they entered Hera's temple, they fell into a slumber and never woke, dying at the height of their admiration, the perfect gift.

When it is either not possible or not desirable to award the victim in that way, a court may award money damages designed to restore the injured party to the economic position s / he occupied at the time the contract was entered ( known as the " reliance measure "), or designed to prevent the breaching party from being unjustly enriched (" restitution ") ( see below ).

When a new symbol has been entered, the device typically sends an interrupt to alert the CPU to read it.

When Austrian-born Hitler entered Vienna, he was greeted by loud cheers.

When Bulgaria entered the war as a German ally in October 1915, Venizelos invited Entente forces into Greece ( the Salonika Front ), for which he was again dismissed by Constantine.

When baby boomers entered the workforce, the economy did not generate jobs fast enough and hundreds of thousands emigrated to the more industrialized Sweden, migration peaking in 1969 and 1970 ( today 4. 7 percent of Swedes speak Finnish ).

When he entered a plane with Opal a bomb detonates, and Opal reveals herself as Mystique.

When Jason entered Iolcus ( modern-day city of Volos ), he was announced as a man wearing one sandal.

When they entered Italy, some Lombards retained their native form paganism, while some were Arian Christians.

When she entered features, Hollywood believed that the movies ' future lay in reproducing Broadway plays for a mass audience.

When Agapetus arrived members of the clergy entered charges against Anthimus as an intruder and a heretic.