- Industry: Computer
- Number of terms: 318110
- Number of blossaries: 26
- Company Profile:
An American multinational software corporation headquartered in Redmond, Washington that develops, manufactures, licenses, and supports a wide range of products and services related to computing.
A device that contains many sensors (thermometer, rain gauge, barometer, etc.) to measure atmospheric data such as temperature, air pressure or humidity.
Industry:Software
An arrangement of search results ordered by relevance using a special search algorithm.
Industry:Software
Capability to use default settings and algorithms of Windows Easy Transfer to capture user files and settings. This capability includes logic to determine additional file types that may have been created or modified by users. Without default logic, capture is based on defined manifest of where to look for and what file formats to look for.
Industry:Software
The process of reverting to legacy code when Windows detects that an application needs it to run seamlessly for the end user.
Industry:Software
A type of user state capture that can be performed within Windows Preinstallation Environment phase without needing to boot into full OS.
Industry:Software
A gadget that users can display on their desktop, rather than on the Windows Sidebar. Examples are clocks, news headlines, slide shows, and weather forecasts.
Industry:Software
Executed by the common language runtime environment rather than directly by the operating system.
Industry:Software
A type of attenuation (commonly used in radio music) where a reduction in the volume of an audio stream is triggered by some external event, e.g. when you are using your PC to place or receive phone calls.
Industry:Software
An e-mail filter that enables the user to set the strictness level that keeps junk e-mail from being delivered to their Inbox.
Industry:Software
The information that a user chooses to describe themselves on Windows Live. Users provide information for their profile, which is separate from the registration information they provide to establish their account. This separation allows users to disclose or conceal personal information as they choose. A user's profile is displayed on their Profile webpage.
Industry:Software
