Originally developed on IRIX, Freeciv has been ported to many different operating systems: it is distributed with many Linux distributions, offers installers for Microsoft Windows, and has been known to run on Mac OS X, Solaris, Ultrix, QNX, OS / 2, Cygwin, AmigaOS, RISC OS, Maemo, ZETA, SkyOS and various BSDs.

* Microsoft. NET Remoting offers RPC facilities for distributed systems implemented on the Windows platform.

Quest offers products for application management, database management, Microsoft Windows management ( including Active Directory, Exchange and SharePoint ) and Virtualization Management ( including desktop virtualization, server virtualization and cloud automation ).

Windows Media Player supports full media management, via the integrated media library introduced first in version 7, which offers cataloguing and searching of media and viewing media metadata.

It offers a set of application development frameworks, such as Microsoft. NET, Java and PHP, and data storage capabilities consistent with the Windows Azure platform provided by Microsoft.

* Windows Media Player 7 offers many new features and capabilities compared to previous versions, including the WindowsMedia. com guide and radio tuner which are an integral part of the player, as well as integrated jukebox and player capabilities, and interactive skins to allow consumers to personalize the look, feel, and operation of the player by changing the user interface.

* Games: Windows Me includes version 7. 1 of the DirectX API which introduced DirectPlay Voice, and also offers several new games: Internet Backgammon, Internet Checkers, Internet Hearts, Internet Reversi, Internet Spades.

InfoSphere Warehouse offers several different editions and is available for z / OS, Linux, Unix, and Windows platforms.

XM also offers music downloads through XM + Napster for Windows users.

| XM Radio Online ( XMRO ), XM's Internet radio product, offers many of XM's music stations and can be accessed from any Internet connected Windows or Macintosh computer, or via the iPhone / iPod Touch SIRIUS XM app.

Netflix offers Internet video streaming (" Watch Instantly ") of selected titles to computers running Windows or Mac OS X and to compatible devices.

It also offers Silverlight and Windows Media Player as optional downloads if applicable to the operating system.

This was heralded by a new product, Citrix Essentials, that offers advanced management for Microsoft Windows Server 2008 Hyper-V. Joint marketing, training and channel activities were conducted with Microsoft.

For example, the Windows program Notepad is extremely simple to learn, but offers little after this.

Smith Micro Software offers free downloads of StuffIt Expander for Mac and Windows, which expands ( uncompresses ) files compressed using the StuffIt and StuffIt X format, as well as many other compressed, encoded, encrypted and segmented formats.

Windows 9x offers share-level access control security for file and printer sharing as well as user-level access control if a Windows NT based operating system is available on the network.

Version 9. 0 which offers Windows Vista compatibility, is available in two editions, an advertisement-free paid version, available in retail and OEM versions and an ad-supported free version ( Works SE ) which is available only to OEMs for preinstalling on new computers.

Nessus 3 is available for many different Unix-like and Windows systems, offers patch auditing of UNIX and Windows hosts without the need for an agent and is 2-5 times faster than Nessus 2.

Xceed offers a broad range of software components and tools that appeal to. NET, Windows Forms, WPF, Silverlight and ASP. NET developers for building better applications.

The Windows version offers three levels of difficulty, with one, two, or four suits.

While some have claimed that the Windows Operating System deliberately hides index. dat files, others point to the fact that Windows Explorer offers users a detailed view of the content of the files when browsing containing folders, even allowing the removal of specific entries.

* Windows Media Player applets, used to display embedded video files in Internet Explorer ( and other browsers that support the plugin )

By the time dBASE for Windows eventually shipped, the developer community had moved on to other products such as Clipper or FoxBase and dBASE never regained significant share of Ashton-Tate's former market.

; CLISP: A bytecode-compiling implementation, portable and runs on a number of Unix and Unix-like systems ( including Mac OS X ), as well as Microsoft Windows and several other systems.

Cygwin permits installing inetd, syslogd, sshd, Apache, and other daemons as standard Windows services, allowing Microsoft Windows systems to emulate Unix and Linux servers.

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

This means that Cygwin programs have full access to the Windows API and other Windows libraries, which allows gradual porting of programs from one platform to the other.

By 1996, other engineers had joined in, because it was clear that Cygwin would be a useful way to provide Cygnus ' embedded tools hosted on Windows systems ( the previous strategy had been to use DJGPP ).

Some, like VirtualBox and VMware Player run on Windows and Linux hosts and can run many other operating systems.

As with other tasks performed in hardware, one would expect this to be rather fast ; however, mainstream operating systems, including Windows and Linux, do not use this feature.

On the other hand, Web-based newspapers such as CNET use the term in both editorial and journalistic contexts, for example " Windows Live to Get Censorware.

These monitors have advanced microprocessors which contain codec information, Windows Interface drivers and other small software which help in proper functioning of these functions.

Diacritics can be composed in most X Window System keyboard layouts, as well as other operating systems, such as Microsoft Windows, using additional software.

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.

Sega also made video games based on Garfield for the Genesis ( Garfield Caught in the Act ) and Windows 3. 1 computers, as well as other companies made games, such as A Tale of Two Kitties for the DS, published by Game Factory, Garfield's Nightmare for DS, Garfield's Funfest for DS, and Garfield Labyrinth for Game Boy.

( Among other things, Presentation Manager placed X, Y coordinate 0, 0 at the bottom left of the screen like Cartesian coordinates, while Windows put 0, 0 at the top left of the screen like most other computer window systems.

Microsoft announced that they have discontinued the separate release of WinFS for Windows XP and Windows Vista and will gradually incorporate the technologies developed for WinFS in other products and technologies, notably Microsoft SQL Server.

Windows XP lasted longer as Microsoft's flagship operating system than any other version of Windows, from 25 October 2001 to 30 January 2007 when it was succeeded by Windows Vista.

Because of this heritage, OS / 2 shares similarities with Unix, Xenix, and Windows NT in many ways.

Pico's interface is in many ways very similar to that found in Windows editors, such as Notepad.

Windows Explorer has been enhanced in several ways in Windows 2000.

Unlike the Mac OS ( Apple Macintosh ) and Microsoft Windows platforms ( excepting Microsoft Windows explorer. exe shell replacements ) which have historically provided a vendor-controlled, fixed set of ways to control how windows and panes display on a screen, and how the user may interact with them, window management for the X Window System was deliberately kept separate from the software providing the graphical display.

As a creation of the mid-1970s, with no constraints to be compatible with earlier operating systems, VME is in many ways more modern in its architecture than today's Unix derivatives ( Unix was designed in the 1960s ) or Microsoft Windows ( which started as an operating system for single-user computers, and still betrays those origins ).

In many ways, this version was ahead of its time, since Windows 95, then codenamed " Chicago ", was not yet released, and Windows NT had only a small market share.

One of the ways to carry this out is to subvert the login mechanism, such as the / bin / login program on Unix-like systems or GINA on Windows.

NSIS version 1 is in many ways similar to the classic Windows Installer, but it is easier to script and supports more compression formats.

He demonstrated his team's tool in court, showing 19 ways in which it is normally possible to access the web browser from the Windows platform that his team's tool rendered inaccessible.

Combined with integrated desktop search, Windows Explorer allows users to find and organize their files in new ways, such as Stacks.

The Windows taskbar can be modified by users in several ways.

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

However there are ways to help make images for cloning with Windows more portable.

PrBoom is a Doom source port derived from Linux and Windows ports of Boom and MBF that includes an optional OpenGL renderer as well as options allowing it to restore the behavior of earlier executables ( such as Doom 1. 9, Boom, and MBF ) in essential ways.

Epsitec Games created Colobot and Ceebot in recent years for Windows machines which are in many ways spiritual successors to Robot Odyssey.

* Unix file names can contain colons or backslashes, whereas Windows interprets such characters in other ways.

Users have created ways to make the game playable with Windows XP and create custom content that users can use with their Babyz, as well as unofficial adoption centers and pages.

There can be two ways of accomplishing this: manually ( that is, if one is familiar with programming ; though it may be irrelevant if the source of the application is closed, and there are no built-in means to adjust its performance ) or using another piece of software specialized for that purpose ( such as Red Button and SysTool, semi-automatic tweaking utilities used to improve the performance of Microsoft Windows XP.