- 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 program, routine, or process that performs a specific system function to support other programs, particularly at a low (close to the hardware) level. When services are provided over a network, they can be published in Active Directory, facilitating service-centric administration and usage.
Industry:Software
To configure settings to restrict access to or permissions for a file or specific elements within a file.
Industry:Software
Done by positioning the pointer over an item and pressing the left mouse button once.
Industry:Software
A group of characters or character bytes handled as a single entity. Computer programs use strings to store and transmit data and commands. Most programming languages consider strings (such as 2674:gstmn) as distinct from numeric values (such as 470924).
Industry:Software
A window or menu that presents an array or grid of visual choices to a user for selection.
Industry:Software
To hide from view the subentries contained within a folder or outline section.
Industry:Software
In object-oriented programming, a reusable basic design structure, consisting of abstract and concrete classes, that assists in building applications.
Industry:Software
A device that reads the information stored on a compact disc. A compact disc player contains the optical equipment necessary for reading a disc's contents and the electronic circuitry for interpreting the data as it is read.
Industry:Software
