Examples of applications often classified as applets are all of the accessories bundled in Microsoft Windows ( such as Windows Notepad or Microsoft Paint ).

Some apps such as Microsoft Office are available in versions for several different platforms ; others have narrower requirements and are thus called, for example, a Geography application for Windows or an Android application for education or Linux gaming.

Windows file names and other identifiers, which are encoded as UTF-16, are automatically converted to and from the selected character encoding.

* Windows drive letters are mapped to a special directory, so for example appears as.

Windows network paths of the form are mapped to.

* Special formats of and are provided that include pointers to the Windows equivalent SIDs ( in the GECOS field ), allowing for mapping between Unix and Windows users and groups.

These are more compliant with Unix terminal standards and user interface conventions than the Cygwin console, but are less suited for running Windows console programs.

* Various utilities are provided for converting between Windows and Unix paths and file formats, for handling line ending ( CRLF / LF ) issues, for displaying the DLLs that an executable is linked with, etc.

* Apart from always being linked against the Cygwin DLL, Cygwin executables are normal Windows executables.

Several open-source and proprietary alternatives are available for simultaneous access to both Windows and UNIX environments on the same hardware.

In addition, there are numerous virtualization solutions that provide x86 platform virtualization to run Windows and Unix-like operating systems simultaneously on the same hardware, but without the integration of the environments that Cygwin provides.

For example, the bytes of a plain text file (< tt >. txt </ tt > in Windows ) are associated with either ASCII or UTF-8 characters, while the bytes of image, video, and audio files are interpreted otherwise.

For instance, Microsoft Word files are normally created and modified by the Microsoft Word program in response to user commands, but the user can also move, rename, or delete these files directly by using a file manager program such as Windows Explorer ( on Windows computers ) or by command lines ( CLI ).

For instance, on newer MS Windows computers, the older FAT-type file systems of MS-DOS and old versions of Windows are supported, in addition to the NTFS file system that is the normal file system for recent versions of Windows.

Context menus in Windows XP are customizable by third-party software.

Currently the most widely used hierarchical databases are IMS developed by IBM and Windows Registry by Microsoft.

Cooperative Linux ( in short coLinux ) runs a full, but modified Linux kernel like a driver under Windows, effectively making Windows and Linux two coroutines, using cooperative multitasking to switch between them.

* Open Dylan-Host of two open source, optimizing Dylan compilers targeting Unix / Linux, Mac OS X, and Microsoft Windows

Other common theories as to the initials ' origins include " Graphics and Windows ", " Gates, William " ( Microsoft's president at the time ), or " Gates-Whitten " ( the two main designers of the program ).

Later, two new versions were released: Windows / 286 2. 1 and Windows / 386 2. 1.

The features listed above and growing market support from application software developers made Windows 3. 0 wildly successful, selling around 10 million copies in the two years before the release of version 3. 1.

There were two versions of Windows for Workgroups, WfW 3. 1 and WfW 3. 11.

Microsoft announced at the conference its intentions to develop a successor to both Windows NT and Windows 3. 1's replacement ( Windows 95, codenamed Chicago ), which would unify the two into one operating system.

Thus Microsoft sought to ensure some degree of compatibility between the Chicago design and Windows NT, even though the two systems had radically different internal architectures.

It is distributed on two CDs, with one CD being the Windows Server 2003 SP1 CD.

This was encouraged by the support of the first two versions of Microsoft's Windows NT for Alpha, MIPS and PowerPC-and to a lesser extent the Clipper architecture and SPARC.

Microsoft stated that the merging of Microsoft Windows and Internet Explorer was the result of innovation and competition, that the two were now the same product and were inextricably linked together and that consumers were now getting all the benefits of IE for free.

During a period of just over two years, VBScript advanced from version 1. 0 to 2. 0, and over that time it gained support from Windows system administrators seeking an automation tool more powerful than the batch language first developed in the early 1980s.

VBScript can be included in two other types of scripting files: Windows Script Files, and HTML Applications.

The addition of the kernel PnP Manager along with the Power Manager are two significant subsystems added in Windows 2000.

A stone cover was placed over the burial place with two holes where pilgrims could insert their heads and kiss the tomb ; this arrangement is illustrated in the ' Miracle Windows ' of the Trinity Chapel.

It was inspired by two Sun Microsystems ' products, the Wabi for the Solaris operating system, and the Public Windows Initiative ( an attempt to get the Windows API fully reimplemented in the public domain as an ISO standard, but rejected by the entity due to pressure from Microsoft in 1996 ).

ARJ was one of two mainstream archivers for DOS and Windows during the early and mid-90s, with PKZIP being its competition.

In particular, these University of Illinois students made two key changes to the Web browser, which hyper-boosted its appeal: they added graphics to what was otherwise boring text-based software, and, most importantly, they ported the software from so-called Unix computers that are popular only in technical and academic circles, to the Windows operating system, which is used on more than 80 percent of the computers in the world, especially personal and commercial computers.

His first book of poetry, The North Ship, was published in 1945, followed by two novels, Jill ( 1946 ) and A Girl in Winter ( 1947 ), but he came to prominence in 1955 with the publication of his second collection of poems, The Less Deceived, followed by The Whitsun Weddings ( 1964 ) and High Windows ( 1974 ).

Currently, Windows Media Player has two default skins: " Corporate " and " Revert ".

* MeshLab is a free Windows, Linux and Mac OS X application for visualizing, simplifying, processing and converting large three dimensional meshes to or from a variety of 3D file formats.

All terrain tiles, some landscape features, all monsters and objects, and some spell / effect graphics take the form of Windows 3. 1 icons.

This provides objects such as FileSystemObject, File, and TextStream, which expose the Windows File System to the programmer.

* Windows domain, collection of security principals ( all objects Active Directory )

Windows has been particularly vulnerable to this because of its emphasis on dynamic linking of C ++ libraries and Object Linking and Embedding ( OLE ) objects.

Dynamic Windows uses typed objects for all output to the screen.

GRAPHIC BITMAPS are also defined, again supporting the GRAPHIC drawing functionality, but as purely memory objects, like Windows Bitmaps or DIB Sections.

Microsoft Windows checks the registry to determine the proper place to load DLLs that implement COM objects, but for other DLLs it will check the directories in a defined order.

The Graphics Device Interface ( GDI ) is a Microsoft Windows application programming interface and core operating system component responsible for representing graphical objects and transmitting them to output devices such as monitors and printers.

* Microsoft Windows uses GUIDs internally to identify the classes and interfaces of COM objects.

shell objects or shell folders are defined in the Windows registry and can be used to implement sort of symbolic links too.

Windows usually include other graphical objects, possibly including a menu-bar, toolbars, controls, icons and often a working area.

The process is similar to the Microsoft Windows functionality of copying or cutting file system objects ( a file or files, a folder or folders, or a combination of both ) to the clipboard ; the objects are not copied or removed from their original location until the paste operation to the new location is completed.

The Shelf concept, though older, is more powerful in that the file system objects, their sources and destinations are persistent and available as long as they are on the Shelf ( in the Windows cut, copy, and paste metaphor the objects and locations persist until one copy / move operation is complete or until something else is placed in the clipboard ).

Classes are defined for many of the handle-managed Windows objects and also for predefined windows and common controls.

* C ++ class for many common Windows resource-related data types that provide automatic closure of handles when the objects creating them go out of scope.

The advantage for the WMI provider developer is that when he exposes all his features through WMI, Windows Remote Management / WS-Management can in turn consume that information as well ( embedded objects in WMI instances are not supported in Windows Server 2003 R2.

Windows Explorer can be extended to support non-default functionality by means of Windows Shell Extensions, which are COM objects that plug the extended functionality into Windows Explorer.

This deep integration can be useful in a number of ways, for example enabling SWT to wrap ActiveX objects on Microsoft Windows.

Many filesystems found on common operating systems, including the NTFS filesystem which is used in modern versions of Microsoft Windows, store files and other objects only as a stream of bytes, and have little or no information about the data stored in the files.