Many books of type-in programs were also available, and in particular, Ahl published versions of the original 101 BASIC games converted into the Microsoft dialect and published it from Creative Computing as " BASIC Computer Games ".

At the same time, Microsoft Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Access and OneNote, both 2007 and 2010, are also backward compatible with their 97-2003 file formats and features in the same manner.

The " smooth curve " feature of charts in Microsoft Excel also uses this algorithm.

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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.

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 ).

In Microsoft Office 2007 and later versions, Internet Explorer 7 and later versions and Windows Live Messenger, ClearType is also turned on by default, even if it is not enabled throughout the operating system.

According to MSDN website, Microsoft acknowledges that " ext that is rendered with ClearType can also appear significantly different when viewed by individuals with varying levels of color sensitivity.

It was also licensed to IBM by Microsoft, and marketed by them as PC-DOS.

Internet Explorer slows down GIFs if the frame-rate is 20 frames per second or higher and Microsoft reports that Google Chrome and Safari also slow down some GIF animations.

Microsoft also sold a BASIC compiler, BASCOM, compatible with GW-BASIC, for programs needing more speed.

The Microsoft User Manual from Microsoft Press also refers to it by this name.

Microsoft is also working to bring Windows NT onto ARM in the next release of Windows.

Later Microsoft also released Windows 3. 11, a touch-up to Windows 3. 1 which included all of the patches and updates that followed the release of Windows 3. 1 in 1992.

DEC also believed he brought Mica's code to Microsoft and sued.

At the Professional Developers Conference ( PDC ) 2008, Microsoft also announced Windows Server 2008 R2, as the server variant of Windows 7.

The first public preview of Windows Server 2012 was also shown by Microsoft at the 2011 Microsoft Worldwide Partner Conference.

For example, Microsoft's Outlook client uses a proprietary protocol to communicate with a Microsoft Exchange Server server as does IBM's Notes client when communicating with a Domino server, but all of these products also support POP, IMAP, and outgoing SMTP.

This allows KDE software based on Qt 4 to also be distributed to Microsoft Windows and.

While the original Karaoke Revolution was also eventually released for the Microsoft Xbox console in late 2004, the new online-enabled version included the ability to download additional song packs through the console's exclusive Xbox Live service.

" Friends from Microsoft and Apple also helped him with research.

Mac OS X v10. 6 also features Microsoft Exchange Server support for Mail, iCal, and Address Book, new 64-bit technology capable of supporting greater amounts of RAM, an all new QuickTime X with a refreshed user interface and more functionality that used to be only available to QuickTime Pro owners.

In 2009, researchers from Microsoft and North Carolina State University demonstrated a hypervisor-layer anti-rootkit called Hooksafe, which provides generic protection against kernel-mode rootkits.

Microsoft demonstrated Windows running on an ARM processor.

A follow-up meeting during 17 – 19 February 1997 demonstrated that there was considerable interest from most parties, with the exception of Microsoft and Sun, although there were concerns as to whether or not the ARB was the right body to support such an effort without diluting their primary job of supporting OpenGL.

WinFS ( short for Windows Future Storage ) is the code name for a cancelled data storage and management system project based on relational databases, developed by Microsoft and first demonstrated in 2003 as an advanced storage subsystem for the Microsoft Windows operating system, designed for persistence and management of structured, semi-structured as well as unstructured data.

A Microsoft Office Master who has also demonstrated their instructional ability via an independent qualification such as CompTIA's CTT +, or " Certified Technical Trainer ", an education-related degree or has considerable demonstrable classroom experience may also apply for, and obtain, the title of " Microsoft Master Instructor " ( MMI ).

Microsoft attempted to show that the judge's conduct during the case demonstrated that he unfairly favored the prosecution, but they failed to do so in court proceedings.

In 2009, researchers from Microsoft and North Carolina State University demonstrated a hypervisor-layer anti-rootkit called Hooksafe that can provide generic protection against kernel-mode rootkits.

Intergraph did work on a version of Microsoft Windows NT for Clipper systems and publicly demonstrated it, but this effort was canceled before release.

Microsoft has been contacted regarding this issue but has not demonstrated in their forums any will to include the dll.

** Microsoft demonstrated the power of new tools, renamed ActiveX

MSNBC and msnbc. com were founded in 1996 as partnerships of Microsoft and General Electric's NBC unit, which is now NBCUniversal.

On July 8, 2008, VMware co-founder, president and CEO Diane Greene was unexpectedly fired by the VMware Board of Directors and replaced by Paul Maritz, a retired 14-year Microsoft veteran who was heading EMC's cloud computing business unit.

* Product Support Services, a Microsoft business unit

NUnit is an open source unit testing framework for Microsoft. NET.

They are also used in Rich Text Format from Microsoft for platform-independent exchange and they are the base length unit in OpenOffice and its fork LibreOffice.

In 1998, after helping to port the products to Windows and financing the development of Softimage | XSI and Softimage | DS, Microsoft sold the Softimage unit to Avid Technology, Inc. who was looking to expand its visual effect capabilities.

Macintosh Business Unit ( informally known as Mac BU or MacBU ) is an operating unit of Microsoft that, as of 2009, is the largest software developer outside of Apple Inc. for the Mac OS operating system.

( One can use gradians on most scientific calculators and even with Microsoft Calculator, but the only profession that makes somewhat regular use of this unit is surveying.

Product Support Services, more commonly referred to as PSS, is the Microsoft business unit with primary responsibility for responding to end-user and partner requests for assistance with the company's products and services.

In Sun Java System Directory Server and Microsoft Active Directory ( AD ), an Organizational Unit ( OU ) can contain any other unit, including other OUs, users, groups, and computers.

As of August 2006, Singingfish continued to power multimedia search for both Microsoft and Real, and was being fully integrated into the AOL search and directed media business unit.

ProClarity Corporation was a software company specializing in business intelligence which is now part of Microsoft business intelligence unit.

The company has been folded into Microsoft Business Intelligence unit.