- 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.
To break input into smaller chunks so that a program can act upon the information.
Industry:Software
A round, flat piece of nonmagnetic, shiny metal encased in a plastic coating, designed to be read from and written to by optical (laser) technology.
Industry:Software
To make a device, component, or feature nonfunctional. For example, if you disable a device in a hardware configuration, you cannot use the device when your computer uses that hardware configuration. Disabling a device frees the resources that were allocated to the device.
Industry:Software
Capable of using or being displayed on the full area of a display screen. Applications running in windowing environments, although they might use the entire area of the screen, commonly allocate different areas to different windows, any of which can be enlarged to fill the entire screen.
Industry:Software
The ability for two or more software applications to work together with little effort from the user.
Industry:Software
A symbolic value used in place of a real value that is unknown or unavailable at the current time, or that is not displayed for security reasons.
Industry:Software
The process of verifying that a computer is running genuine Microsoft software in compliance with the software license associated with it.
Industry:Software
