- 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 System Audio Effects (SYSFX) component used to provide a more immersive audio experience in the Windows Media Player and thus an improved listening experience by utilizing the available speakers that a user has attached to his/her PC by sending audio to all of the speakers, regardless of the number of channels the content contains. This will provide a better sounding experience for stereo and quadraphonic content being rendered on multi-channel playback systems.
Industry:Software
How a program's action is determined if the user does not make a choice or supply a required value.
Industry:Software
Having two components, alternatives, or outcomes. The binary number system has 2 as its base, so values are expressed as combinations of two digits, 0 and 1. These two digits can represent the logical values true and false as well as numerals, and they can be represented in an electronic device by the two states on and off, recognized as two voltage levels. Therefore, the binary number system is at the heart of digital computing.
Industry:Software
A collection of graphic or text buttons representing hyperlinks to pages both within your Web site and to external sites.
Industry:Software
Of or pertaining to a device or service that appears to the user as something it actually is not or that does not physically exist.
Industry:Software
Management of a computer and its processing abilities so as to maintain order as tasks and activities are carried out. Control applies to measures designed to ensure error-free actions carried out at the right time and in the right order relative to other data-handling or hardware-based activities.
Industry:Software
A fraction that is written on a downward angle: the diagonal fraction bar is placed down and to the right of the numerator, and the denominator is slightly down and to the right of the fraction bar.
Industry:Software
The process of starting or resetting a computer. When first turned on (cold boot) or reset (warm boot), the computer runs the software that loads and starts the computer's operating system, which prepares it for use.
Industry:Software
The process of starting or resetting a computer. When first turned on (cold boot) or reset (warm boot), the computer runs the software that loads and starts the computer's operating system, which prepares it for use.
Industry:Software
The work area on a computer screen that simulates the top of an actual desk. The desktop contains the Recycle Bin and other icons (shortcuts to programs, files, folders, and various types of documents such as letters, reports, or pictures) that you can arrange on the electronic desktop just as you would arrange real objects on top of a desk.
Industry:Software
