- 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.
In an environment capable of displaying multiple on-screen windows, any window other than the one currently being used for work. An inactive window can be partially or entirely hidden behind another window, and it remains inactive until the user selects it.
Industry:Software
The amount of light that is emitted by a computer monitor or picture displayed on the monitor.
Industry:Software
A type of installation that allows the user to specify certain installation settings and options, such as which components will be installed.
Industry:Software
A type of installation that allows the user to specify certain installation settings and options, such as which components will be installed.
Industry:Software
A file containing information that the user either requires or will find informative and that might not have been included in the documentation. Readme files are placed on disk in plain-text form (without extraneous or program-specific characters) so that they can be read easily be a variety of word processing programs.
Industry:Software
Any device that changes electrical signals or computer data from one form to another. For example, an analog-to-digital converter translates analog signals to digital signals.
Industry:Software
A file and folder structure that contains the necessary files and/or configuration settings that control the preinstallation process and define the manufacturers' custom information.
Industry:Software
A location in a program at which execution is halted so that a programmer can examine the program's status, the contents of variables, and so on.
Industry:Software
A type of display that uses a liquid compound having a polar molecular structure, sandwiched between two transparent electrodes. When an electric field is applied, the molecules align with the field, forming a crystalline arrangement that polarizes the light passing through it. A polarized filter laminated over the electrodes blocks polarized light. In this way, a grid of electrodes can selectively "turn on" a cell, or a pixel, containing the liquid crystal material, turning it dark.
Industry:Software
